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#29 Reducing Suffering with Evan Sandhoefner
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Jared Janes and Jason Snyder talk with Evan Sandhoefner about what led him to utilitarianism & effective altruism, the flexibility of utilitarianism & some critiques, pluralistic virtue ethics, whether suffering is necessary & how it may affect animals & humans differently, whether we should remove wild predators to prevent animal suffering, creating unintentional animal suffering, consciousness, ethical meat production & factory farming, localism, universal explainers vs computers, intelligence, and more.
In this Episode of Both/And
- Givewell
- David Pearce
- David Deutsch
- Twitter Questions
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- Mind in Life by Evan Thompson
- The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
- Metzinger & Harris Podcast: The Nature of Consciousness
- Evan's Blog
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Jared Janes participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, a small percentage of its price is sent to us.
46 episodes
Manage episode 250380239 series 2485432
Jared Janes and Jason Snyder talk with Evan Sandhoefner about what led him to utilitarianism & effective altruism, the flexibility of utilitarianism & some critiques, pluralistic virtue ethics, whether suffering is necessary & how it may affect animals & humans differently, whether we should remove wild predators to prevent animal suffering, creating unintentional animal suffering, consciousness, ethical meat production & factory farming, localism, universal explainers vs computers, intelligence, and more.
In this Episode of Both/And
- Givewell
- David Pearce
- David Deutsch
- Twitter Questions
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- Mind in Life by Evan Thompson
- The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
- Metzinger & Harris Podcast: The Nature of Consciousness
- Evan's Blog
Support Both/And by becoming a patron &/or subscribing & reviewing us on iTunes
Jared Janes participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, a small percentage of its price is sent to us.
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