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Effective Altruism

Theron Pummer interviewed by the APA

February 5, 2023 by Theron Pummer

Theron Pummer interviewed at the APA Blog! The main focus of the interview is his new book, but other topics include his personal life and future work.

Categories Effective Altruism, Events, Featured, News, Publications

When can you refuse to rescue?

December 13, 2022November 4, 2022 by Theron Pummer

A teaser for Theron Pummer’s book The Rules of Rescue (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism, News, Publications, Research Projects

Review of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

September 25, 2020August 22, 2020 by Theron Pummer

Theron Pummer’s review of Toby Ord’s new book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism, Exoplanet Ethics

The moral mathematics of letting people die

April 21, 2020October 11, 2019 by Lynn Hynd

Theron Pummer recently published this piece on the OUPblog in connection with the release of the edited volume *Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues*.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism Tags Theron Pummer

Philanthropist Footballers: The Bigger Picture

September 4, 2017August 10, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Joe Slater invites us to take a broader perspective on footballer Juan Mata’s decision to pledge 1% to charity.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism Tags Juan Mata, The Ethics of Giving

Effective giving: how the world’s wealthy could help millions more people for free

November 16, 2018June 14, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Theron Pummer argues that billionaires who pledge fortunes to charity must not just give big, but give effectively.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism Tags Bill Gates, Giving Pledge, Melinda Gates, The Ethics of Giving, Warren Buffett

2017 Knox Lecture

October 20, 2022May 30, 2017 by Theron Pummer

A video recording of Prof Peter Singer’s Knox Lecture. Singer spoke to an audience of over 300 people, and the lecture raised over £1600 in donations for effective charities.

Categories Effective Altruism, Events Tags Climate Change, Global Poverty, Knox Lectures, Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat

Conference on The Ethics of Giving

November 16, 2018May 30, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Video recordings of talks given at The Ethics of Giving Conference (23 May to 25 May in School III, University of St Andrews).

Categories Effective Altruism, Events Tags The Ethics of Giving

Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize

November 16, 2018May 25, 2017 by Michael Arrowsmith

The Philosophical Quarterly welcomes essays of 8,000 words or fewer addressing the philosophy of effective altruism.

Categories Effective Altruism

PEA Soup Discussion of “Whether and Where to Give”

April 15, 2017 by Theron Pummer

An online discussion of Theron Pummer’s “Whether and Where to Give” (in Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2016) with a critical précis by Johann Frick.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism, Publications, Research Projects Tags Johann Frick, The Ethics of Giving, Theron Pummer
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