To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.