David Pearce (philosopher)
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David Pearce is a British philosopher and negative utilitarian who promotes the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. He is best-known for his book-length work The Hedonistic Imperative, which details how he believes the abolition of suffering can be accomplished through paradise engineering.
In his treatise The Hedonistic Imperative, Pearce outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially collaborate to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience in human life.
As a believer in the abolition of suffering in all life, Pearce also calls for the elimination of cruelty towards animals and is a vegan. Among his myriad websites, there are many devoted to the plight of animals in the world.
Pearce co-founded the World Transhumanist Association with Nick Bostrom, a fellow Oxford philosopher. The WTA advocates the idea of transhumanism, the idea of using technology to improve on the current human.
Pearce sits on the board of the journal Medical Hypotheses.
Pearce is co-founder (with Pablo Stafforini, Sean Henderson, and Jaime Savage) and honorary president of the Abolitionist Society, a nonprofit organization which seeks to further the goals outlined in The Hedonistic Imperative.
Pearce is currently the director of BLTC Research.
Pearce is notable for not only his philosophical works and ideas, but for owning a huge number of domain names in the sciences, especially those concerning psychopharmacology and keywords concerning various drugs and terms related to them. All of these domains, highly ranked on search engines, have original content. His list of sites can be seen here.
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[edit] External links
- David Pearce's site, HedWeb
- Dave's Diary
- Economist article that mentions paradise engineering
- National Catholic Register article on Transhumanism which interviews Pearce
- Clintonium essay that includes Pearce interview
- NanoAging interviews Pearce
[edit] Bibliography
- Why Does Anything Exist?
- The Good Drug Guide
- Future Opioids
- The Post-Darwinian Transition
- The Hedonistic Imperative
- Abolitionism and Buddhism
- Smart Drugs 2 – A Review
- The Wired Society
- Cosmic Consciousness for Tough Minds
- Critique of Huxley's "Brave New World"
- Utopian Surgery : Early arguments against anaesthesia in surgery, dentistry and childbirth
- Aiming for An All Time High
- Utopian Pharmacology : Mental Health in the Third Millennium MDMA and Beyond
