Effective Altruism
Philosophical Issues
Edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer
Author Information
Hilary Greaves, University of Oxford,Theron Pummer, University of St Andrews
Theron Pummer is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews. Prior to this he was a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His research lies at the intersection of ethical theory and metaphysics, and on the ethics of effective altruism. His work has been published in Analysis, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (Oxford 2017).
Hilary Greaves is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. Her main research interests concern issues in moral philosophy, decision theory, and economics. She has also worked on issues of interpersonal aggregation, population ethics (pure and applied), theories of well-being, the interface between ethics and economics, and formal epistemology.
Contributors:
Amanda Askell, New York University
Christian Barry, Australian National University
Nick Beckstead, Open Philanthropy Project
Mark Budolfson, University of Vermont
Stephanie Collins, Australian Catholic University
Iason Gabriel, University of Oxford
Hilary Greaves, University of Oxford
Holly Lawford-Smith, University of Melbourne
William MacAskill, University of Oxford
Brian McElwee, University of Southampton
Andreas Mogensen, University of Oxford
Toby Ord, University of Oxford
Laurie Paul, Yale University
Theron Pummer, St Andrews University
Emma Saunders-Hastings, Ohio State University
Ben Sachs, St Andrews University
Jeff Sebo, New York University
Peter Singer, Princeton University
James Snowden, GiveWell
Dean Spears, University of Texas at Austin
Travis Timmerman, Seton Hall University
Richard Yetter Chappell, University of Miami