{"id":307,"date":"2013-06-30T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2020-04-19T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T12:01:16","slug":"bibliography-for-a-course-on-effective-altruism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/bibliography-for-a-course-on-effective-altruism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibliography for a course on effective altruism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A professor of economics is planning to give a course on effective altruism in the coming academic year, and he asked me and others for a brief list of relevant scholarly writings. Here&#8217;s what I suggested [I have since revised and updated the list\u2014PS, April 2020]:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aschenbrenner, Leopold, <a href=\"https:\/\/leopoldaschenbrenner.github.io\/xriskandgrowth\/ExistentialRiskAndGrowth050.pdf\">Existential risk and growth<\/a>, forthcoming.<\/li>\n<li>Beckstead, Nick, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuYmVja3N0ZWFkfGd4OjM4ZDVlYjY4ZTkzMzFlZjE\">On the overwhelming importance of shaping the far future<\/a><\/em>, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Rutgers University, chap. 1.<\/li>\n<li>Bostrom, Nick, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.existential-risk.org\/concept.pdf\">Existential risk prevention as global priority<\/a>, <em>Global policy<\/em>, vol. 4, no. 1 (February, 2013), pp. 15-31.<\/li>\n<li>Greaves, Hilary, <a href=\"http:\/\/stafforini.com\/docs\/Greaves%20-%20Cluelessness.pdf\">Cluelessness<\/a>, <em>Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society<\/em>,\u00a0vol. 116, no. 3 (December, 2016), pp. 311-339.<\/li>\n<li>Greaves, Hilary &amp; William MacAskill, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalprioritiesinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/Greaves_MacAskill_strong_longtermism.pdf\">The case for strong longtermism<\/a>, forthcoming.<\/li>\n<li>MacAskill, William, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1557895\/Replaceability_Career_Choice_and_Making_a_Difference\">Replaceability, career choice, and making a difference<\/a>, <em>Ethical theory and moral practice<\/em>, vol. 17, no. 2 (April, 2014), pp.\u00a0269-283.<\/li>\n<li>Matheny, Jason Gaverick, <a href=\"http:\/\/users.physics.harvard.edu\/~wilson\/pmpmta\/Mahoney_extinction.pdf\">Reducing the risk of human extinction<\/a>, <em>Risk analysis<\/em>, vol. 27, no. 5 (October, 2007), pp. 1335-1344.<\/li>\n<li>Matheny, Jason Gaverick and Kai M. A. Chan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jgmatheny.org\/matheny%20chan%202005.pdf\">Human diets and animal welfare: the illogic of the larder<\/a>, <em>Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics<\/em>, vol. 18, no. 6 (December, 2005), pp. 579\u2013594.<\/li>\n<li>Ord, Toby, <a href=\"http:\/\/amirrorclear.net\/files\/the-moral-imperative-towards-cost-effectiveness-in-global-health.pdf\">The moral imperative towards cost-effectiveness in global health<\/a>, Washington DC: The Centre for Global Development, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Singer, Peter, <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/koopman\/courses_readings\/singer_famine_affluence_morality.pdf\">Famine, affluence, and morality<\/a>, <em>Philosophy &amp; public affairs<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring, 1972), pp. 229-243.<\/li>\n<li>Singer, Peter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/txt\/Singer - All animals are equal.pdf\">All animals are equal<\/a>, in P. Singer (ed.) <em>Applied ethics<\/em>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 215-228.<\/li>\n<li>Trammell, Phil, <a href=\"https:\/\/philiptrammell.com\/static\/discounting_for_patient_philanthropists.pdf\">Discounting for patient philanthropists<\/a>, forthcoming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>With thanks to Bastian Stern, Nick Beckstead and Lila Rieber for valuable feedback.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">Latest update: 19th April, 2020<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor of economics is planning to give a course on effective altruism in the coming academic year, and he asked me and others for a brief list of relevant scholarly writings. 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