After 40 years studying forgiveness, Robert Enright explores how we define it and why people are skeptical about it.

Effective altruism, which Singer’s work helped inspire, “makes students in places like Princeton feel like they’re the heroic rescuers of the world,” says philosopher Alice Crary.

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 ...

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

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

Effective altruism took off in 2011 when Scottish-born philosopher William MacAskill was inspired by a 1972 essay called “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” by Australian bioethicist Peter ...

Philosophers, social scientists and a Nobel-prizewinning economist on how researchers can get satisfaction from their work — and make a difference to the world.

From Oxford university to Silicon Valley, the ‘do good’ philosophy has enjoyed an improbable rise — but faces an uncertain future ...