I did a PhD, you know, I did economics and philosophy for a long time. I did my undergraduate work at Oxford. I came out of the sort of environment that the effective altruism founders and the ...

Having children led Elissa Strauss to explore what it means to care, and whether we can expand the care we have for our kids to others.

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

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 ...

Oxford University Press ... John Doris and Stephen Stich (2006) ‘Moral Psychology’, Section 5 on Egoism and Altruism in The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. Michael Edwards (2010) Small Change: ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the judge can’t distinguish, the AI is deemed intelligent. Two flaws are immediately obvious. Some humans are easier to ...

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 ...

Iskra Fileva (Ph.D., Boston University, 2009). Professor Fileva joined the department in Fall 2014. Prior to coming to the University of Colorado, Boulder, she taught at several universities, most ...