William MacAskill
Scottish philosopher and ethicist (born 1987) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William David MacAskill (né Crouch; born 24 March 1987)[2] is a Scottish philosopher and author, as well as one of the originators of the effective altruism movement.[3][4][5] He was a Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, co-founded Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours,[6] and is the author of Doing Good Better (2015)[7] and What We Owe the Future (2022),[8] and the co-author of Moral Uncertainty (2020).[9]
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Born | William David Crouch (1987-03-24) 24 March 1987 (age 37) Glasgow, Scotland |
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Amanda Askell (divorced) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
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Thesis | Normative Uncertainty (2014) |
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Website | williammacaskill |
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