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2013Effective Altruism and Extreme PovertyDissertation, University of Warwick. 2020.Effective altruism is a movement which aims to maximise good. Effective altruists are concerned with extreme poverty and many of them think that individuals have an obligation to donate to effective charities to alleviate extreme poverty. Their reasoning, which I will scrutinise, is as follows: Premise 1. Extreme poverty is very bad. Premise 2. If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to …Read more
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37Moral Significance and OverpermissivenessUtilitas 35 (2): 119-130. 2023.As opposed to overdemanding principles which ask individuals to sacrifice too much, there are overpermissive principles which ask individuals to sacrifice too little. Determining the extent to which one should sacrifice often comes with the need of understanding what is of moral significance. By analysing different readings of moral significance, and singling out one specific interpretation of moral significance which links moral significance to gaining or losing a considerable amount of welfare…Read more
University of Warwick
PhD, 2021
Areas of Specialization
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Effective Altruism |
Global Justice |
Ethics |
Applied Ethics |
Value Theory |
Political Theory |
Social and Political Philosophy |