"All that matters is the pleasure-pain axis. Pain and pleasure disclose the world's inbuilt metric of (dis)value. Our …"

"[N]othing is too terrible to be true if it is consistent with the laws of nature [...]."

"Nature documentaries are mostly travesties of real life. They entertain and edify us with evocative mood-music and tr…"

"By far my greatest dread in life […] is that (some variant of) the Everett interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true."

"I argue that what breathes fire into the QM equations is field-theoretic what-it's-likeness: "microqualia" to use a p…"

"The negative utilitarian might reply that this formulation of the problem is misleading. We do not live in a notional…"

"When Bernard Marx tells the Savage he will try to secure permission for him and his mother to visit the Other Place, …"

"[T]here is no fundamental biological reason why the human genome can't be rewritten to allow everyone to be "in" love…"

"[I]n the wake of the growth of the animal-rights movement, there has recently arisen a hitherto unfelt need to demoni…"

"[U]nlike positive utilitarianism or so-called preference utilitarianism - neither of which can ever be wholly fulfill…"