What Is Utilitarianism? Pleasure, Pain, and the Greatest Good
A thorough guide to utilitarianism: Bentham's hedonic calculus, Mill's higher pleasures, act vs rule utilitarianism, Singer's preference...
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What Is Effective Altruism: Evidence, Ethics, and the Limits of Doing Good
What is effective altruism: Peter Singer's drowning child argument, GiveWell, earning to give, longtermism, the Sam Bankman-Fried scandal, and the...
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What Is Utilitarianism? Pleasure, Pain, and the Greatest
A thorough guide to utilitarianism: Bentham's hedonic calculus, Mill's higher pleasures, act vs rule utilitarianism, Singer's preference utilitarianism, effective altruism, and objections from Rawls, Williams, and Nozick.