David Pearce (philosopher) vs. Richard Dawkins
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
David Pearce (philosopher)
1959 – present
David Pearce is a British transhumanist philosopher. He is the co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded and incorporated as Humanity+. Pearce approaches ethical issues from a negative utilitarian perspective.
"The reason for sketching what's technically feasible with the tools of synthetic biology is that only after human complicity in the persistence of suffering in …"
Richard Dawkins
1941 – present
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin.
"... the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria ... All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ance…"
Connections
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