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  • Home
  • People
    • Members of CEPPA
    • Professorial Fellows
    • Postgraduate Members
    • CEPPA Advisory Committee
  • Projects
    • Climate Ethics
    • Philosophy of Climate Science
    • Health and Medicine
    • The Future of Work and Income
    • Effective Altruism
    • Knowledge, Democracy, and Public Discourse
    • Human Rights and Global Justice
    • Blame and Responsibility
    • Virtue and Character
    • Past projects
      • Philosophy and Education
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Reading Groups
    • Past CEPPA Talks
    • Knox Lectures 
    • The Ethics Cup
    • Film and Philosophy at CEPPA
  • Outputs
    • St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    • CEPPA Chats
    • Haldane Prize

Christian Barry

Risky Giving 

June 13, 2017April 6, 2016 by Michael Arrowsmith

Non-consequentialist criteria imply that it is not wrong to give to at least some of the charities that Singer and other effective altruists recommend, even when this comes with significant risk of doing harm.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism Tags Christian Barry, Leif Wenar, Peter Singer, The Ethics of Giving

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