Academic philosophers these days do not tend to be the subjects of overwhelming attention in the national media. The Oxford professor William MacAskill is a notable exception.In the month and a ...

MacAskill is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University and he's also the author of books on effective altruism including 'Doing Good Better' and 'What We Owe The Future.' William MacAskill is ...

The philosopher explained, almost 300 years before Sam Bankman-Fried, why something like effective altruism was fatally flawed. The Philosopher Who Critiqued Effective Altruism More Than 250 Years Ago ...

Who Is William MacAskill, the Oxford Philosopher Who Shaped Sam Bankman-Fried’s Worldview? A prominent voice in the “effective altruism” movement, MacAskill has served as Sam Bankman-Fried ...

That said, he suggests to Schwartz that Will MacAskill — the Oxford philosopher who leads the effective-altruism community and until recently co-led the Future Fund, a major branch of the FTX ...

Effective altruism, which used to be a loose, Internet-enabled affiliation of the like-minded, ... The Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan, whom MacAskill considers a friend, ...

In a not-quite-throwaway line in a recent New Yorker magazine profile, Oxford philosopher and “effective altruism” figurehead William MacAskill described meeting billionaire Tesla chief ...

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’ Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run ...

Early players—including MacAskill, a Cambridge philosopher; Toby Ord, an Oxford philosopher; Holden Karnofsky, cofounder of the charity evaluator GiveWell; and Dustin Moskovitz, a cofounder of ...

During college, Bankman-Fried met with one of the other “stars” of the E.A. movement, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill, co-founder of the Centre for Effective Altruism, who sold the future ...

Toby Ord, one of the Oxford philosophers who founded effective altruism, published a terrific book in 2020, at the start of the Covid pandemic, called “The Precipice,” which thinks through ...

Effective altruism has captivated Silicon Valley personalities like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, but the philosophy's stature has taken a big hit. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced ...