Citations:sentientism

English citations of sentientism

an ethical view that places sentient individuals at the center of moral concern ?

• 2013, Donato Bergandi, The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 127:

  Versions of individualism include anthropocentrism, sentientism and the variety of biocentrism that I favour.

• 2018, Robert L. Holmes, Introduction to Applied Ethics, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 292:

  Therefore there's no bar (on those grounds) to giving BMC [basic moral consideration] to nonhuman things. This doesn't show that sentientism, biocentrism, or ecocentrism are correct; it only shows that they can't be dismissed for the reasons Baxter gives. Sentientism extends BMC to all sentient beings, such as higher animals, as well as to humans.

• 2018 July 12, Ted F. PetersMartinezHewlett, Martinez Hewlett, Joshua M. Moritz, Robert John Russell, Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 398:

  According to sentientism, one has to be sentient to have moral status whether terrestrial or extraterrestrial and whether biological or nonbiological [such as post-biological] ... The most plausible theory for moral standing seems to be sentientism […]

• 2023 July 27, Muriel Gargaud, William M. Irvine, Ricardo Amils, Philippe Claeys, Henderson James Cleaves, Maryvonne Gerin, Daniel Rouan, Tilman Spohn, Stéphane Tirard, Michel Viso, Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 239:

  ... extraterrestrial life. Nonbiological intelligent entities will not count according to biocentrism. Sentientism is the idea that all and only sentient life has moral standing (e.g., Regan 1983, 2001; Singer 1993, 1995). “Sentient” in […]

• 2018 December 27, Zoë Lehmann Imfeld, Andreas Losch, Our Common Cosmos: Exploring the Future of Theology, Human Culture and Space Sciences, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 154:

  ... Sentientism As long as we stay within our solar system, sentientism probably has the same immediate consequence for planetary protection as anthropocentrism, namely, that the life we expect that we might find in will not have any moral standing.

belief in [sentient] life and civilisations on other planets

• 2019 February 11, Cometan, Astronist Institution, Omnidoxy, Astronist Institution, page 4567:

  sentientism / belief in sentient life and civilisations on other planets / […] Sentientism is one of the most commonly referred to beliefs of Astronism […]