"One thing that greatly matters is the failure of we rich people to prevent, as we so easily could, much of the suffer…"

"What now matters most is that we rich people give up some of our luxuries, ceasing to overheat the Earth's atmosphere…"

"Until this century, most of mankind lived in small communities. What each did could affect only a few others. But con…"

"We are paternalists when we make someone act in his own interests."

"Venetian Memories. Jane has agreed to have copied in her brain some of Paul’s memory-traces. After she recovers consc…"

"Strawson describes two kinds of philosophy, descriptive, and revisionary. Descriptive philosophy gives reasons for wh…"

"On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering."

"Certain actual sleeping pills cause retrograde amnesia. It can be true that, if I take such a pill, I shall remain aw…"

"Nagel once claimed that it is psychologically impossible to believe the Reductionist View. Buddha claimed that, thoug…"

"It has been widely believed that there are such deep disagreements between Kantians, Contractualists, and Consequenti…"