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 ...

Effective altruism has captivated Silicon Valley personalities like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, but the philosophy's stature has taken a big hit.

The philosopher explained, almost 300 years before Sam Bankman-Fried, why something like effective altruism was fatally flawed.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan, whom MacAskill considers a friend, wrote a decidedly mixed critique in the London Review of Books, calling MacAskill’s first book “a feel-good guide to ...

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 ...

The giving philosophy, which has adopted a focus on the long term, is a conservative project, consolidating decision-making among a small set of technocrats.

Sam Bankman-Fried, a prominent follower of effective altruism and the founder of the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, in a video appearance at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit on ...

The philosopher explained, almost 300 years ago, why something like effective altruism was fatally flawed.