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207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future

2022-08-15 · 102 min · episode 207 · 8 entities

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It's always a little humbling to think about what affects your words and actions might have on other people, not only right now but potentially well into the future. Now take that humble feeling and promote it to all of humanity, and arbitrarily far in time. How do our actions as a society affect all the potential generations to come? William MacAskill is best known as a founder of the  Effective Altruism  movement, and is now the author of  What We Owe the Future . In this new book he makes the case for longtermism: the idea that we should put substantial effort into positively influencing the long-term future. We talk about the pros and cons of that view, including the underlying philosophical presuppositions. Mindscape listeners can get 50% off  What We Owe the Future , thanks to a partnership between the Forethought Foundation and Bookshop.org. Just  click here  and use code MINDSCAPE50 at checkout. Support Mindscape on  Patreon . William (Will) MacAskill received his D.Phil. in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is currently an associate professor of philosophy at Oxford, as well as a research fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, director of the Forefront Foundation for Global Priorities Research, President of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and co-founder of 80,000 hours and Giving What We Can. Web site PhilPeople profile Google Scholar publications Wikipedia Twitter