Here’s why being overly selfless is a double-edged sword and being “healthily selfish” is the balance we all need.

ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about contemporary philosophers & philosophy at Oxford, and about a battle that raged in the Times' correspondence columns when Prof. Gilbert Ryle, editor of the ...

Effective altruism, often called ‘EA,’ is closely linked to utilitarian philosophy and calls for donors to carefully scrutinize whether their giving makes an impact. The term, coined in 2011 ...

A WOMAN, who was part of a quartet of celebrated female philosophers who met at Oxford University during the 1940s, has died aged 99. Mary Midgley was one of the first to write seriously about our ...

As a generous supporter of effective altruism, Bankman-Fried was also linked to the FHI through his close friend William MacAskill, another philosopher at Oxford. “For the effective altruism ...

By Michael Steinberger The philosopher, in keeping with his ideas about “effective altruism,” said he plans to donate half the prize to alleviating global poverty. By Jennifer Schuessler ...

Many of them did so purely out of self-interest, in order to continue a barbaric trade, but some historical philosophers sought to justify slavery from the best intentions. The great Greek ...

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic ...

Nicknamed the “Effective Altruism Castle” by critics ... Speaking on Sam Harris’s podcast on April 1, the Oxford philosopher William MacAskill, one of the leading figures of EA, spoke ...

The last five questions are about you, and they'll be used by our research team to better understand how altruism relates to factors like age and gender. When you're done, you'll get your score, learn ...

Led by Philipp Koralus, an Oxford philosopher and one of the Institute's founding fellows, this lab is pioneering what they call the "philosophy-to-code pipeline." The HAI Lab's mission is to ...