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William David MacAskill, all'anagrafe William David Crouch (Glasgow, 24 marzo 1987), è un filosofo scozzese, tra i creatori del movimento dell'altruismo efficace. [2] [3] [4] Professore associato di filosofia e ricercatore presso il Global Priorities Institute dell'Università di Oxford, è direttore della Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. [5]
My new book is out! The human story is just beginning. There are 5,000 years of written history, but perhaps millions more to come. In What We Owe the Future, philosopher William MacAskill develops a perspective he calls longtermism, showing that our vast future is of enormous moral importance.We uphold the idea that where we live does not affect our moral worth; MacAskill argues that when we ...
I'm Will MacAskill, an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford, and author of Doing Good Better (Gotham Books, 2015). I've also cofounded two non-profits: 80,000 Hours, which provides research and advice on how you can best make a difference through your career, and Giving What We Can, which encourages people to commit to give at least 10% of their income to the most ...
In this book, William MacAskill raises a basic moral question: we don't consider "this person is not in front of me" as a reason to disregard people morally. Nor do we consider "this action will cause harm to people later rather than immediately" as a good reason to disregard people morally.
Longtermism. Longtermism is the view that we should be doing much more to protect future generations. Longtermism is based on the ideas that future people have moral worth, there could be very large numbers of future people, and that what we do today can affect how well or poorly their lives go. Let’s take these points one at a time.
14 de jun. de 2021 · A striking fact about the history of civilisation is just how early we are in it. There are 5000 years of recorded history behind us, but how many years are still to come? If we merely last as long as the typical mammalian species, we still have over 200,000 years to go (Barnosky et al. 2011); there could be a further one billion years until the Earth is no longer habitable for humans (Wolf ...
William MacAskill, Research Fellow at Cambridge University, has spent the last five years developing the philosophy of effective altruism, which applies data and scientific reasoning to the normally sentimental world of doing good. In the course of his research he’s come to the remarkable conclusions that most ways of making a difference ...
