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

This is the thinking behind Effective Altruism, a moral philosophy ... at the time a graduate student in philosophy at the ...

We work closely with the Centre for Effective Altruism, including sharing an office ... is a multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford. Based in the Faculty of Philosophy, it ...

Some of the politicians and churchmen who have been calling most loudly for a revivification of morality in our schools might be surprised that the current Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford ...

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 ...

The intellectual movement that calls itself longtermism is an outgrowth of Effective Altruism (EA), a utilitarianism-inspired philanthropic programme founded just over a decade ago by Oxford ...

She was working at Open Philanthropy, a nonprofit associated with the effective-altruism movement ... Toby Ord, a philosopher at Oxford University who has worked on AI risk for more than a ...

In a final report, FHI Research Fellow Anders Sandberg reflected that FHI’s rapport with its mother organisation, Oxford University’s Philosophy Department ... the ethics of human enhancement, ...

Followers of effective altruism, which is based on the ideas of Oxford philosopher William MacAskill, are called to service in causes including animal welfare, tackling risks to human extinction, or ...

GWWC was founded in 2009 by two Oxford university students - Will MacAskill and Toby Ord. Both are now philosophy academics who focus on "effective altruism", which explores the most effective ...