Episode 248: Sentientist political liberalism with Eze Paez and Pablo Magaña

This episode features two guests. Dr Eze Paez is a returning guest; he first appeared on the podcast back in 2018. Eze is Tenure-Track Professor in Jurisprudence and Bioethics of Pompeu Fabra Universityin Barcelona. He works on questions in moral and political philosophy, and is perhaps best known for his work on wild animal suffering and animals in republican political theory. Dr Pablo Magaña, however, is a new guest. Pablo is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He's a political philosopher, with particular interests in questions about animals in democratic theory. We discuss a paper that Eze and Pablo co-authored: 'Sentientist political liberalism'. This paper was published open access in the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly in 2026. This episode is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics book series at Sydney University Press. In answer to the regular questions, Pablo mentioned: Jesús Mosterín's book El triunfo de la compasión: Nuestra relación con los otros animales [or, in English: Triumph of Compassion: Our Relation with the other Animals ]; learn more at His early work on animals and the all-affected interests principle; for his published work on this topic, see . Various forthcoming work, including a collaboration with Adrià Moret ( )

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Episode 248: Sentientist political liberalism with Eze Paez and Pablo Magaña is an episode from Knowing Animals by Josh Milburn.

This episode is 36:07 long.

This episode was published on Apr 6, 2026.

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