David Pearce is a Britishphilosopher who promotes the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness -- the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. ...
Pearce's views are most prominently presented in The Hedonistic Imperative, a manifesto in which he outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and neurosurgery could potentially eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience. The Hedonistic Imperative is a manifesto by David Pearce outlining the goals of an endeavor to use genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and neuroscience to eliminate suffering in all sentient life. ... A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. ... An iconic image of genetic engineering; this 1986 autoluminograph of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene of the firefly strikingly demonstrates the power and potential of genetic manipulation. ... Nanotechnology comprises technological developments on the nanometer scale, usually 0. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... Old German engraving depicting a trepanation, an ancient and still performed neurosurgical procedure Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. ...
Pearce was co-founder (with Nick Bostrom) of the World Transhumanist Association as well as co-founder (with Pablo Stafforini, Sean Henderson, and Jaime Savage) and honorary president of the Abolitionist Society. He is currently the director of BLTC Research. Nick Bostrom (Boström in the original Swedish) is a philosopher at the University of Oxford, and known for his work on the anthropic principle. ... The World Transhumanist Association is an international non-profit organization membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. ... Pablo Stafforini is a postgraduate student of philosophy at the University of Oxford and a transhumanist activist notable for having coined the term anarcho-transhumanism in 2003 and written on this political philosophy, and for having co-founded the Abolitionist Society and the Argentine Transhumanist Association. ... The Abolitionist Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of sentient suffering by means of re-engineering the brain. ...
David Pearce currently teaches mathematics at St. Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney
Pearce was co-founder (with Nick Bostrom) of the World Transhumanist Association as well as co-founder (with Pablo Stafforini, Sean Henderson, and Jaime Savage) and honorary president of the Abolitionist Society.
Pearce was widely considered to be the father of modern applied environmental economics, and his ideas began to have an effect in the political arena in the late 1980s.
David William Pearce was born at Harrow, Middlesex, on October 11 1941.
The increasing seriousness with which Pearce's work was taken by polticians is indicated by his role, between 1989 and 1992, as personal adviser in environmental economics to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Chris Patten.
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