Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 6, 1946
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head..
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn….
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself….
Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domi….
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of….
We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every probl….
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and ….
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness..
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For….
Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would b….
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the z….
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific….
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern; t….
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful live….
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written..
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature..
When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may ….
Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian….
In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere ….
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with a….
The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected by our actions are incl….