William David MacAskill (né Crouch; born 24 March 1987) is a Scottish philosopher and author, as well as one of the originators of the effective altruism...
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MacAskill, also spelt Macaskill and McCaskill is a surname. It is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Asgaill, meaning "son of Asgall". The Gaelic name...
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Philosophers influential to the movement include Peter Singer, Toby Ord, and William MacAskill. What began as a set of evaluation techniques advocated by a diffuse...
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the Future is a 2022 book by the Scottish philosopher and ethicist William MacAskill, an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford...
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that future generations get to survive and flourish. Philosopher William MacAskill defines longtermism as "the view that positively influencing the longterm...
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Effective Altruism and How You Can Make a Difference is a 2015 book by William MacAskill that serves as a primer on the effective altruism movement that seeks...
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physician-in-training Bernadette Young (Ord's wife), and fellow philosopher William MacAskill. Giving What We Can was founded as a giving society in 2009 by Toby...
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Twitter Doing philanthropy better - Effective Altruism Global talk with William MacAskill Giving away a Facebook fortune - Financial Times interview...
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2010. What Is This Thing Called Happiness?. Oxford University Press MacAskill, William (2020). "Elements and Types of Utilitarianism: Hedonism and Theories...
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supports the effective altruism community. It was founded in 2012 by William MacAskill and Toby Ord, both philosophers at the University of Oxford. CEA is...
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EA in media | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Galef, AJ Jacobs, and William MacAskill, November 7, 2017, archived from the original on December 3, 2021...
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an introductory online textbook on utilitarianism coauthored by William MacAskill. Deontology: Alexander, Larry. "Deontological Ethics". In Zalta, Edward...
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and misogynistic histories.: 1 Longtermist and effective altruist William MacAskill, who frequently collaborated with Bankman-Fried to coordinate philanthropic...
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TED talk. Associate Professor in Philosophy at Oxford University William MacAskill promoted earning to give as one possible high impact career in several...
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research from GiveWell, MacAskill gave the example of donating to the Against Malaria Foundation to end malaria. MacAskill's pieces were cited in Nonprofit...
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Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2021. MacAskill, William (5 August 2022). "Opinion | The Case for Longtermism". The New York...
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Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 20 January 2024. MacColl, Margaux (7 October 2023). "It's a Cult': Inside Effective Accelerationism...
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include Danny Alexander, Edwina Currie, Ruth Deech, Helen Fielding, William MacAskill, Amanda Pritchard, Simon Rattle, Tina Brown, Mr Hudson and Victor...
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Letting Die. Philosopher William MacAskill was influenced by the essay, which he encountered in an undergraduate seminar; MacAskill later went on to be a...
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existential risk, including the work of philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill who are trying to devise human and machine strategies for navigating...
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Future Fund, whose team included Scottish philosopher and author William MacAskill, one of the founders of the effective altruism movement. After the...
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Theories of Well-Being, in William MacAskill & Richard Yetter-Chappell (2021), Introduction to Utilitarianism....
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Swinburne, Rosalind Hursthouse, Thomas Friedman, Thomas Nagel, and William MacAskill. Filmmaker Terrence Malick started a BPhil course but left without...
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that you should let eat you". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2 July 2023. MacAskill, William; Meissner, Darius. "Acting on Utilitarianism". Introduction to Utilitarianism...
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WSJ. Retrieved March 3, 2023. "Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews William MacAskill". The New York Times. August 9, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2023. Johnson...
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well-being in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Theories of Well-Being, in William MacAskill & Richard Yetter-Chappell (2021), Introduction to Utilitarianism....
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represent key concepts in ancient Greek philosophy regarding uncertainty. William MacAskill, a philosopher at Oxford University, has also discussed the concept...
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evaluating the effectiveness of charitable programs. In August 2014, after the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced the end of its Nonprofit Marketplace...
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Oxford philosophy professor William MacAskill. There were also conferences in Oxford and Melbourne. According to MacAskill, the nature of the conferences...
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(3): 355–379. doi:10.1163/156853506778942077. ISSN 1363-5247. MacAskill, William; MacAskill, Amanda (September 9, 2015). "To Truly End Animal Suffering...
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