Writing

Ethics (or other areas of philosophy)

• Roger Thisdell on undisturbedness, positive experiences, and the hedonic peak. February 17, 2023.
• Philosophical Pessimism: Varieties, Importance, and What to Do. The Blog of the American Philosophical Association. Sep. 13, 2022.
• Pessimism about the value of the future and the welfare of present and future beings based on their acts and traits. Aug. 25, 2022.
• Permissible moderate paths to human extinction. 2022.
• In support of talking about pessimism, antinatalism, negative utilitarianism, etc. 2020.
• Many-valued Logic and Sequence Arguments in Value Theory. Published online 2021 in Synthese. Free official version; preprint.
• The World Destruction Argument. Inquiry, 64:10, 1004-1023. 2021. Free official version; preprint with extra material.
• Epicurean ideas about pleasure, pain, good and bad. 2019.
• Lars Bergström on pessimism, ethics, consequentialism, Ingemar Hedenius, and quantifying well-being. 2019.
• Reply to Shulman’s “Are Pain and Pleasure Equally Energy-Efficient?” 2017.
• How Could an Empty World Be Better than a Populated One? 2016. Translations: Español, Русский
• Measuring happiness and suffering. 2016.
• Value lexicality. 2016.
• What is the difference between weak negative and non-negative ethical views? 2016.
• Thoughts on Ord’s “Why I’m Not a Negative Utilitarian”. 2016.
• The One-Paragraph Case for Suffering-Focused Ethics. 2016.
• Effective Altruism and Ethics. Published 2016 but work in progress.
• The Seriousness of Suffering: Supplement. 2015.
• The ‘Asymmetry’ and extinction thought experiments. 2015.

Philosophy career and PhD programs

• Which philosophy PhD programs should you apply to? 2018.
• My philosophy PhD research proposal on value superiority. 2017.

Animal ethics and effective animal advocacy

• A Virtue of Precaution Regarding the Moral Status of Animals with Uncertain Sentience. With Christian Munthe. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 2017 30:213–224. Official full-text view-only; preprint PDF
• How Animal Rights Sweden (Djurens Rätt) Can Have More Impact. 2017.
• Reducing Suffering among Invertebrates Such as Insects. 2016.
• Feeding Vegan Children. 2016.
• How Good or Bad Is the Life of an Insect? 2015.
• Miljöpolitiken bör ha som mål att förändra naturen för de vilda djurens skull. In Swedish. 2015.
• The Moral Importance of Invertebrates Such as Insects. 2015. My master’s thesis in philosophy

Other

• On the results of Oxford-style effective altruism, existential risk, and longtermism. December 29, 2022.
• Bergström, Lars. 2022. The consequences of pessimism. Translated by Simon Knutsson. Originally published as “Pessimismens konsekvenser” in 1978.
• Bergström, Lars. 1978. Pessimismens konsekvenser.
• Effective paths to human extinction. May 29, 2021.
• Problems in effective altruism and existential risk and what to do about them. 2019.
• A lecture I gave at a high school on how to have a positive impact. 2011.

Conversation notes

• GiveWell: Elie Hassenfeld, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, March 16, 2014
• Bailey Norwood: Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, e-mail exchange about his US farm animal welfare scores, July 2013
• The Humane League: Nick Cooney, Founder and Board Member, e-mail exchange Feb 2012
• Vegan Outreach: Matt Ball, Executive Director, e-mail exchange Jan/Feb 2012
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA):
  • Ryan Huling, Manager of College Campaigns & Outreach at peta2, PETA US, e-mail exchange where I request evidence of impact, Feb 5, 2012
  • Ryan Huling, Manager of College Campaigns & Outreach at peta2, PETA US, Feb 2, 2012
  • Harald Ullman, Vice President PETA Germany, Dec 20, 2011