“Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good” by Richard Y Chappell🔸

This is a link post. Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good—by Sam Arnold, Jason Brennan, Ryan Davis, and me—is now available from Routledge. It introduces a new “roundtable” format for debate books: each of us chose three questions relating to beneficence, wrote a “starter essay” on our own questions, wrote responses to each of the others’ starter essays, and then wrote a wrap-up response to the responses. The result is a lot of constructive engagement between our different viewpoints. I hope it's as edifying to the reader as it was for me as an author! As a nice bonus, the publisher has allowed me to publicly share some of my contributions to the volume (my introduction & starter essays, plus three of my responses to others’ questions). My plan is to share one essay a week on my substack, starting with the introduction today. If you’re [...] ---Outline:(01:20) Series contents(02:04) Introduction: Three Questions Exploring BeneficenceThe original text contained 1 image which was described by AI. --- First published: September 28th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oiSzAtFEEmjncsAto/questioning-beneficence-four-philosophers-on-effective --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.