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David Pearce

David Pearce is a British visionary who promotes the abolition of the chemical substrates of suffering in all sentient life.

Pearce's views are most prominently presented in The Hedonistic Imperative, a manifesto in which he outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will ultimately eliminate all forms of aversive experience.

Pearce was co-founder (with Nick Bostrom) of the World Transhumanist Association. He is currently the director of BLTC Research.

Table of contents

1 Bibliography 1.1 Major works 1.2 Other works 1.3 Miscellaneous 1.4 Works about Pearce 1.5 Interviews 2 External link

Bibliography

Major works

• The Hedonistic Imperative
• Brave New World? : A Defense of Paradise-Engineering
• Utopian Pharmacology: MDMA and Beyond
• Why Does Anything Exist?
• Cosmic Consciousness For Tough Minds
• The Post-Darwinian Transition

Other works

• The Good Drug Guide: The Responsible Parents Guide to Healthy Mood-Boosters For All the Family.
• In Search Of The Big Bang. Reprinted in L. A. Weekly, July 6 - 12, 2001.
• Future Opioids.
• Wirehead Hedonism: The future of mankind?.
• Review of Mind, Brain and the Quantum, by Michael Lockwood.
• Review of Smart Drugs 2, by W. Dean, J. Morgenthaler and S. Fowkes.
• Review of Storming Heaven, by Jay Stephens.
• Review of Nutritional Medicine, by Stephen Davies and Andrew Stewart.
• Review of Mind, Brain and the Quantum, by Michael Lockwood.

Miscellaneous

Dave's Diary.

Works about Pearce

• The Zero Ontology - David Pearce on Why Anything Exists. By Arthur Witherall.
• The Plains of Heaven : an Introduction to Paradise Engineering. By Paul Newman. Abraxas, No. ? (2001).

Interviews

• Feeling Groovy, Forever. With R. U. Sirius. The NeoFiles, Vol. 1, No. 3.
• Hedonic Engineering ? Our ticket to Emotional Independence?. With Ian Richardson. Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 2001), pp. 13-4.
• "Leiden in jeder Form wird abgeschafft". With David Hesse. SonntagsZeitung, January 6, 2002 [in German].

External link

HedWeb. David Pearce's Home Page.

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