Doing Good Badly? Philosophical Issues Related to Effective Altruism (D. Phil Thesis)
I’ve now passed the D. Phil. In the (unlikely) event anyone wants to read it, it can be found here. Here’s the […]
November 2019
June 2019
How Many Lives is Notre Dame Worth?
Co-written with Peter Singer. This is cross-posted from Project Syndicate, where it originally appeared.
PRINCETON – Just a […]
January 2019
Cause profile: mental health
[This was originally posted on the EA forum]
I argue that mental illness may be one of the world’s […]
May 2018
Ineffective Entrepreneurship: Post-Mortem Of Hippo, The Happiness App That Never Quite Was
60 word summary: I spent two and half years trying to start a startup I thought might do lots of good. It failed. […]
February 2018
Armageddon, who’s it bad for, anyway?
First published as part of the Huffington Post’s Apocalypse series.
How bad is the end of the world? It’s well, the end of the world, […]
January 2018
‘What Are The Best Ways To Improve World Happiness? A Quick Look A Pain, Poverty, Drugs and Depression’ talk at Effective Altruism Global
Abstract: All plausible moral theories agree increasing the happiness of currently existing people during their lifetimes is intrinsically good. Despite, or perhaps because of, this agreement, […]
November 2017
The Moral Urgency Of Mental Health
Co-written with Peter Singer. This is cross-posted from Project Syndicate, where it original appeared.
If we can prevent great suffering at no […]
June 2017
The Philanthropist’s Paradox
Many people interested in effective charity worry about whether it’s better to give now or invest and give later. I’ve realised there is an additional […]
May 2017
A taxonomy of happiness interventions
Abstract: If we want to maximise happiness we should establish what the full range of options are first and then pick the best ones. As no […]
March 2017
Intuition Jousting: What It Is And Why It Should Stop
Word count: 1,152
Over the past year or so I’ve become steadily more aware of and annoyed by a phenomeon I’m going to call, for lack […]