"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 [...]."

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

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

"As the neurobiological basis of feeling and emotion is unravelled, and the human genome decoded and rewritten, it wil…"

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

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

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

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

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