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Inside the minds of animals

In his book, In Defence of Dogs, John Bradshaw provides a fascinating insight into the inner life of dogs, raising issues of consciousness and animal ethics.

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What does it mean to be you?

Dan Dennett, Sue Blackmore, Eric Olsen and others answer in my home movie.

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• A video of a talk I gave at the Humanist Society of Scotland conference on October 15 is now available online here. #
• Jules Evans has shot a 10-minute interview with me about The Ego Trick on his Politics of Well-Being blog. More about the book here. #
• You can listen to my recent appearance on Radio Four's Start the Week with Andrew Marr here or download it as a podcast here. The "programme explores how far empathy, or the lack of it, can explain cruelty. Simon Baron-Cohen proposes turning the focus away from evil and says we should understand human behaviour by studying the 'empathy circuit' in the brain. Gwen Adshead, a forensic psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital and the crime writer Val McDermid question whether this would help in their line of work, and the philosopher Julian Baggini tries to pin down what we mean when we talk about the self." #
• George Miller (Podularity) has posted his video of me answering three questions. I didn't know the questions in advance. You can view it here. Three questions for... Julian Baggini from George Miller on Vimeo. #
• I was on Radio Four's You and Yours today talking about organised religion. More, with listen again facility (until October 7th) available here. #