Philosopher, historian, journalist, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Émile P. Torres is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. Their writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Philosophy Now, Nautilus, Motherboard, Slate, TIME, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. They are the author of The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Apocalypse (2016), Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks (2017) and Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation (forthcoming from Routledge).
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Ethics
The ethics of human extinction
Why would it be so bad if our species came to an end? It is a question that reveals our latent values and hidden fears
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Thinkers and theories
Against longtermism
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
Émile P Torres