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People in SuitcasesJournal of Moral Philosophy 20 (1-2): 3-30. 2022.
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Market harms and market benefitsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 50 (2): 202-38. 2022.Our actions in the marketplace often harm others. For instance, buying and consuming petroleum contributes to climate change and thereby does harm. But there is another kind of harm we do in almost every market interaction: market harms. These are harms inflicted via changes to the goods and/or prices available to the victim in that market. (Similarly, market benefits are those conferred in the same way.) Such harms and benefits may seem morally unimportant, as Judith Jarvis Thomson and Ronald …Read more
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The Moral Case for Long-Term ThinkingIn Natalie Cargill & Tyler M. John (eds.), The Long View: Essays on Policy, Philanthropy, and the Long-term Future, First. pp. 19-28. 2021.This chapter makes the case for strong longtermism: the claim that, in many situations, impact on the long-run future is the most important feature of our actions. Our case begins with the observation that an astronomical number of people could exist in the aeons to come. Even on conservative estimates, the expected future population is enormous. We then add a moral claim: all the consequences of our actions matter. In particular, the moral importance of what happens does not depend on when it h…Read more
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The Long View: Essays on Policy, Philanthropy, and the Long-term Future (edited book)FIRST. 2021.Enclosed is a guidebook for philanthropists, advocates, and policymakers who want to do the most good possible. This book introduces the philosophy of “longtermism,” the idea that it is particularly important that we act now to safeguard future generations. The future is vast in scale: depending on our choices in the coming centuries, the future could stretch for eons or it could dwindle into oblivion, and be inordinately good or inordinately bad. And yet future generations are utterly disenfran…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Population Ethics |
Decision Theory |
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
Artificial Intelligence Safety |