Tag: Consequentialism

  • The good it promises (Part 6: Alice Crary)

    The good it promises (Part 6: Alice Crary)

    Alice Crary’s essay “Against `effective altruism'” argues that effective altruism inherits a number of assumptions from consequentialism, including a focus on moral questions about particular actions and a framing of those questions in terms of the point of view of the universe.

  • A note about methodology

    A note about methodology

    I have an awful lot in common with many effective altruists. We begin in similar places, but end up quite far apart.