William MacAskill
Scottish philosopher and ethicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William David MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher and author, as well as one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. He is an associate professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford and Director of the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. He co-founded Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours, and is the author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future and the co-author of Moral Uncertainty .
William MacAskill's Published Works
Published Works
- Normative Uncertainty as a Voting Problem (2016) (53)
- Effective Altruism: Introduction (2017) (26)
- The Definition of Effective Altruism (2019) (23)
- The case for strong longtermism (2021) (23)
- Why Maximize Expected Choice‐Worthiness?1 (2018) (22)
- The Infectiousness of Nihilism* (2013) (21)
- Replaceability, Career Choice, and Making a Difference (2014) (19)
- Effective Altruism (2016) (17)
- Smokers, Psychos, and Decision-Theoretic Uncertainty (2016) (12)
- Statistical Normalization Methods in Interpersonal and Intertheoretic Comparisons (2020) (9)
- Doing Good Better (2015) (8)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy (2018) (8)
- Giving Isn’t Demanding (2018) (8)
- Understanding Effective Altruism and Its Challenges (2018) (7)
- What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion? (2021) (6)
- Practical Ethics Given Moral Uncertainty (2019) (5)
- The Evidentialist's Wager (2021) (4)
- Staking Our Future: Deontic Longtermism and the Non Identity Problem (2020) (3)
- Longtermist Institutional Reform (2021) (3)
- When Should an Effective Altruist Donate (2016) (3)
- The Paralysis Argument (2020) (3)
- Effective altruism: an elucidation and a defence (3)
- Pressure measurement characteristics of a micro‐transducer and balloon catheters (2021) (2)
- Assessing health literacy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples presenting to general practice. (2022) (1)
- Why We Should Take Moral Uncertainty Seriously (2020) (1)
- The control of respiratory pressures and neuromuscular activation to increase force production in trained martial arts practitioners (2021) (1)
- Relationships between confidence, gender, high school performance, a concept inventory, and success in first-year chemistry. (2012) (1)
- Aid Scepticism and Effective Altruism (2019) (1)
- The Evidentialist ’ s Wager 1 (0)
- EVOLUTION, UTILITARIANISM, AND NORMATIVE UNCERTAINTY The Practical Significance of Debunking Arguments (2022) (0)
- In vivo characteristics of respiratory neuromuscular responses with balloon catheters and skin surface EMG versus a micro transducer catheter integrated with EMG electrodes (2019) (0)
- Metaethical Implications (2020) (0)
- Maximizing Expected Choiceworthiness (2020) (0)
- Evolution, Utilitarianism, and Normative Uncertainty (2022) (0)
- I. MORAL DECISIONS UNDER SEVERE UNCERTAINTY In the spring of 2009, a novel strain of the H1N1 influenza virus, containing a never before witnessed combination of gene segments from human influenza, two forms of swine (2018) (0)
- Study of Si diffusion during epitaxial growth of graphene on SiC/Si substrates in UHV (2014) (0)
- The Effects Of Age On Exercise-induced Abdominal Muscle Fatigue In Healthy Younger And Older Men. (2022) (0)
- Must do better (2018) (0)
- Conclusion (2020) (0)
- Planning ahead (2022) (0)
- An UHV study of epitaxial growth of graphene on SiC / Si substrates by Si sublimation (2014) (0)
- Ordinal Theories and the Social Choice Analogy (2020) (0)
- Intertheoretic Comparisons of Choice-Worthiness (2020) (0)
- Moral Information (2020) (0)
- Interval-Scale Theories and Variance Voting (2020) (0)
- Comparing response, relaxation and measurement characteristics of balloon versus micro pressure transducer catheters (2019) (0)
- Fanaticism and Incomparability (2020) (0)
- 10. Gillian Russell, Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Gillian Russell, Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (pp. 586-592) (2013) (0)
- Moral Issues of Giving in Time (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Replaceability, Career Choice, and Making a Difference (2013) (0)
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