The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
by Peter Singer · 1 Jan 2015 · 197pp · 59,656 words
United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Singer, Peter, 1946– The most good you can do: how effective altruism is changing ideas about living ethically / Peter Singer. pages cm. — (Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-18027-5 (cloth :
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Nick Beckstead and Matt Wage and available at: www.effective-altruism.com/preventing-human-extinction. A fuller statement of the argument about the roles of reason and emotion in motivating altruism can be found in chapter 2 of Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, The Point of View of the Universe (Oxford:
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Oxford University Press, 2014). Peter Singer University Center for Human Values, Princeton University & School of Historical and Philosophical
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giving to the poor, see Luke 10:33, 14:13, and Matthew 25:31–46. 7. See www.aaronmoore.com.au. The statement is from Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, 3d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 200. A similar statement appears in my “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” Philosophy and Public Affairs
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. Anonymous comment made in a discussion forum about earning to give on Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics online course, April 2014. 14. It is possible to value equality for its own sake and still be very supportive of effective altruism. Philosophers who are sympathetic to some form of egalitarianism and also supportive
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-organization-sandy-victims–600-debit-cards-article–1.1204224. 8. Paul Niehaus provided information for this section. 9. Peter Singer, “Animal Liberation,” New York Review of Books, April 5, 1973. 10. For details, see Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). Chapter
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Methods of Ethics, 382. The following account of Sidgwick’s view of how ethical judgments can be motivating draws on Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, The Point of View of the Universe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 17. The Methods of Ethics, 40, 500. Chapter 8. One Among Many
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Chicago Press, 2012). Asma acknowledges his indebtedness to Williams on page 183, note 22. 2. For a fuller account, see Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, “The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason,” Ethics 123 (2012): 9–31; for critical discussion, see http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/
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2012/12/ethics-discussions-at-pea-soup-katarzyna-de-lazari-radek-and-peter-singer-the-objectivity-of-ethics–1.html, and Guy Kahane, “Evolution and Impartiality,” Ethics 124 (2014): 327–41. 3. Rachel Maley, “Choosing to Give,” The
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-Esteem (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1996), 7. 17. T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). 18. Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), 197. 19. For discussion, see Shih Chao-hwieh, Buddhist
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the same issue, pages 23–24. For discussion of the broader question of the methods used to reach such figures, see John McKie, Jeff Richardson, Peter Singer, and Helga Kuhse, The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the “QALY” Approach (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 1998). 3. For
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to-death/. 6. Animal Charity Evaluators, FAQ, Position Statement. See http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/about/faq/ and http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/about/position-statement/. 7. Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (1975; reprint, New York: Harper, 2009), chap. 1; for support for my claim that at a philosophical level the argument against speciesism
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. 4, 5. Note, however, that since writing that I have become more sympathetic to hedonism rather than preference utilitarianism. See Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, The Point of View of the Universe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), chaps. 8, 9. For other views on the killing of animals, see
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2013), no. 9, http://www.existential-risk.org/faq.html. 9. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 7th ed. (London: Macmillan, 1907), 415. 10. See Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, 3d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 88–90, 107–19; for a more recent account of my views on this topic that
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is fuller than I can present here, see Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, The Point of View of the Universe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 361–77. 11. The most influential critique of views that give priority
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(ii) Zaki, Radi, (i) Parts of this book were given as the Castle Lectures in Yale’s Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, delivered by Peter Singer at Yale University in 2013. The Castle Lectures were endowed by Mr. John K. Castle. They honor his ancestor the Reverend James Pierpont, one of
Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
by Peter Singer · 3 Mar 2009 · 190pp · 61,970 words
ALSO BY PETER SINGER Democracy and Disobedience Animal Liberation Practical Ethics Marx Animal Factories (with James Mason) The Expanding Circle Hegel The Reproduction Revolution (with Dean Wells) Should the
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the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical arguments, you will agree that we must act. PETER SINGER THE ARGUMENT 1. Saving a Child On your way to work, you pass a small pond. On hot days, children sometimes play in the pond
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world so that we come to see helping those in great need as an indispensable part of what it is to live an ethical life. PETER SINGER June 2010 Acknowledgments An invitation from Professor Julian Savulescu to give the 2007 Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at Oxford University got me started on
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. Is It Wrong Not to Help? 1. Peter Unger, Living High and Letting Die (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). 2. For further discussion see Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 136, 183. For futher examples, see www.unification.net/ws/theme015.htm. 3. Luke 18:22-25
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OECD or the Giving USA data. See Center for Global Prosperity, Index of Global Philanthropy, Hudson Institute, 2008, available at http://gpr.hudson.org/. 4. Peter Singer, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” The New York Times Sunday Magazine, September 5, 1999. 5. Glennview High School is Seider’s fictional name for
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. 22. Alan Ryan, as quoted by Michael Specter in “The Dangerous Philosopher,” The New Yorker, September 6, 1999. 23. http://www.muzakandpotatoes.com/2008/02/peter-singer-on-affluence.html. 4. Why Don’t We Give More? 1. C. Daniel Batson and Elizabeth Thompson, “Why Don’t Moral People Act Morally? Motivational
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, The Unresponsive Bystander (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970), p. 58.1 am grateful to Judith Lichtenberg, “Famine, Affluence and Psychology,” in Jeffrey Schaller, ed., Peter Singer Under Fire (Chicago: Open Court, forthcoming 2009) both for suggesting the relevance of this research and for this and other references. 20. Bib Latane and
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. Elizabeth Corcoran, “Ruthless Philanthropy,” www.Forbes.com, June 23, 2008. 26. For a fuller discussion of the relevance of our evolved psychology to ethics, see Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981). 5. Creating a Culture of Giving 1. See Bib Latane and John Darley
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. ed. (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 112. 3. See Richard Arneson, “What Do We Owe to Distant Needy Strangers?” in Jeffrey Schaler (ed.), Peter Singer Under Fire (Chicago: Open Court, forthcoming 2009). 4. For Gates’s speech, see www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/Speeches/Co-ChairSpeeches/BillgSpeeches/BGSpeechWHA-050516.htm?version
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. 5831 (June 15, 2007), pp. 1622-25. 24. For more information about Henry Spira, see Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement (Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). ABOUT THE AUTHOR PETER SINGER was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the
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Human Values at Princeton University, and since 2005, Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, attached to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. Peter Singer first became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation. He is the author of many other books, as well as of the major
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world.” Singer is married and has three daughters and three grandchildren. His recreations, apart from reading and writing, include hiking and surfing. Copyright © 2009 by Peter Singer All rights reserved. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Singer, Peter The life
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you can save : acting now to end world poverty / Peter Singer p. cm. Includes index. eISBN: 978-1-58836-779-2 1. Charity. 2. Humanitarianism. 3. Economic assistance. 4. Poverty. I. Title. HV48.S56 2009 362
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
by William MacAskill · 27 Jul 2015 · 293pp · 81,183 words
Will MacAskill, a leader of the effective altruism movement and a rising star in philosophy, now displays his talent for telling stories that pack a punch. This must-read book will lead people to change their careers, their lives, and the world, for the better.” —Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp professor of bioethics
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not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. Version_1 To Toby Ord, Peter Singer, and Stanislav Petrov, without whom this book would not have been written CONTENTS PRAISE FOR DOING GOOD BETTER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION INTRODUCTION Worms and
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Naik, Anthony Obeyesekere, Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Donovan, Toby Ord, Michael Peyton Jones, Duncan Pike, Alex Richard, Jess Riedel, Josh Rosenberg, Matt Sharp, Carl Shulman, Peter Singer, Imma Six, Pablo Stafforini, Shayna Strom, Tim Telleen-Lawton, Derek Thompson, Ben Todd, Helen Toner, Robert Wiblin, Boris Yakubchik, Vincent Yu, Pascal Zimmer, and
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least sexy development program there is”: Private conversation with Grace Hollister, June 2014. I helped to develop the idea of effective altruism: Toby and I were both heavily influenced by Peter Singer’s arguments for the moral importance of giving to fight poverty, made in “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Philosophy and Public
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own money on the line, the importance of spending that money as effectively as possible seemed imperative. Peter Singer has since become a powerful advocate for effective altruism: see The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2015). (the number of
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://www.cheatneutral.com/. I will spare you the grim details here: If you’re interested in further reading, I recommend picking up a copy of Peter Singer and Jim Mason, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (New York: Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006). Of all the animals raised for food:
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt · 26 Dec 2005 · 405pp · 130,840 words
at the University of Pennsylvania, I discovered the weakness of moral reasoning in myself. I read a wonderful book— Practical Ethics—by the Princeton philosopher Peter Singer.16 Singer, a h u m a n e consequentialist, shows how we can apply a consistent c o n c e r n for
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt · 13 Mar 2012 · 539pp · 139,378 words
1990a. 10. The first published mention of the three ethics was Shweder 1990b. The major statement of the theory is Shweder et al. 1997. 11. Peter Singer is the most prominent utilitarian philosopher of our time. See P. Singer 1979. 12. It need not be a soul in anything like the Christian
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.com/postpartisan.html. 6. TASTE BUDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS MIND 1. Examples in philosophy include Jeremy Bentham, R. M. Hare, and Peter Singer. In psychology, morality is often operationalized as altruism or “prosocial behavior.” It’s about getting more people to help more people, ideally strangers. Even the Dalai Lama defines an ethical
Willful: How We Choose What We Do
by Richard Robb · 12 Nov 2019 · 202pp · 58,823 words
multitudes. It stems from concern over the well-being of everyone in the world, often including animals. The Australian philosopher Peter Singer, a prominent advocate of effective altruism, abides by the principle that people who live in rich countries are morally obligated to support charities that aid the global poor. He equates spending
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. 2 (1956): 129–138. Singer, Peter. “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle.” New Internationalist, April 5, 1997. https://newint.org/features/1997/04/05/peter-singer-drowning-child-new-internationalist (accessed February 2, 2019). Skidelsky, Robert. John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937. London: Macmillan, 1992. Smith, Adam. An
The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future
by Tom Chivers · 12 Jun 2019 · 289pp · 92,714 words
the world, then we should think carefully (and use numbers) to establish how we should spend our careers. The spiritual godfather of the movement is Peter Singer. He’s an Australian moral philosopher, based at Princeton, who in 1972 published an essay entitled ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’.1 Singer is a utilitarian
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humans (a very conservative figure: Buck Shlegeris, the young Effective Altruist and Rationalist we met earlier, told me he rated it about a quarter, and Peter Singer told me that wasn’t ridiculous), you should care as much about the world’s chickens as you do about the entire population of the
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. That’s a massive and ongoing bunfight in moral philosophy, and, as MacAskill said, there’s no clear answer on it. When I spoke to Peter Singer, he pointed out that there’s a difference between future lives and possible lives. ‘It’s highly probable that there will be humans living on
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AI risk is crowding out all other charity; it’s not even monopolising Effective Altruism. It accounted for about 30 per cent of total OpenPhil grants in 2017, but OpenPhil is only one of several organisations. And Peter Singer, who is very probably the best-known moral philosopher alive today and the absolute
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Sabisky, Anna Salamon, Buck Shlegeris, Catherine Hollander, David Gerard, Diana Fleischman, Helen Toner, Holden Karnofsky, Katja Grace, Michael Story, Mike Levine, Murray Shanahan, Nick Bostrom, Peter Singer, Rob Bensinger, Robin Hanson, Scott Alexander, Toby Ord, Toby Walsh and everyone else who spoke to me. Plus grudging thanks to Eliezer Yudkowsky who did
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-endorses-clinton-johnson-or-stein/ 5. SSC survey results 2018 http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/03/ssc-survey-results-2018/ 38: The Effective Altruists 1. Peter Singer, ‘Famine, affluence, and morality’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 1(1), Spring 1972, pp. 229–43 (rev. edn) https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2002 · 901pp · 234,905 words
of war, infanticide as a form of birth control, and the legal ownership of women—have vanished from large parts of the world. The philosopher Peter Singer has shown how continuous moral progress can emerge from a fixed moral sense.18 Suppose we are endowed with a conscience that treats other persons
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it does suggest that something may have been right about the theory of human nature that guided its architects. The left needs a new paradigm. —Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left (1999)43 Conservatives need Charles Darwin. —Larry Arnhart, “Conservatives, Design, and Darwin” (2000)44 What’s going on? That voices of the
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we now treat lobsters, and our incomprehension of such deeds may be compared with animal rights activists’ incomprehension of ours. It is no coincidence that Peter Singer, the author of The Expanding Circle, is also the author of Animal Liberation. The observation that people may be morally indifferent to other people who
The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
by Jenny Kleeman · 13 Mar 2024 · 334pp · 96,342 words
lives as possible, and the good that you do can be objectively measured. And bettered. The grandfather of the EA approach is the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer. His 1975 book, Animal Liberation, says that we should care equally about any being that has the capacity to suffer, even if we can’t
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die on the streets of this city; the leading cause of death is overdose, followed by suicide, homicide and chronic medical conditions. To use philosopher Peter Singer’s analogy, the ‘drowning child’ in the Bay Area is the woman sleeping rough on the pavement outside your office, and the people who work
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had been taking the ideas of cost-effectiveness very seriously.’ There was an energy and optimism to Toby that drew Will in, he says. ‘With Peter Singer, the framing was always obligation – that you are acting wrongly unless you do this. Whereas Toby was very upbeat.’ Will switched to study ethics, and
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good you do as a doctor in the US, I’m pretty confident you will do more good with your donations,’ he replies with relish. ‘Peter Singer’s analogy,’ I say. ‘Is ignoring a leaflet from an effective charity the same as walking past a drowning child?’ ‘Morally, yes, it is the
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, while Australia’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy didn’t mean zero deaths, it fared far better than most. One of Melbourne’s most influential residents is Peter Singer, the utilitarian philosopher who has inspired millions of vegans and billions in philanthropic donations. Singer is an uncompromising, polarizing figure, happy to use cold calculus
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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benefits of nonviolence and other forms of reciprocal consideration, and apply them more and more broadly. This is the theory of the expanding circle as Peter Singer originally formulated it.224 Though I have co-opted his metaphor as a name for the historical process in which increased opportunities for perspective-taking
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