Effective Altruism and the Pursuit of an Optimized Ethics
A Conversation with Peter Wicks
12.00-1.30pm | Friday, February 16
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue
The idea that we should seek to use our resources (time, talent, wealth) in ways that maximize the positive impact we have on the world is disarmingly simple, but the effective altruism movement shows that it can lead in some surprising - and controversial - directions. Why did the movement only emerge so recently if its guiding principle is so simple? Is effective altruism just rebranded utilitarianism, or something genuinely new?
Peter Wicks is Scholar-in-Residence at the Elm Institute.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
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We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I don’t know.
—John Foster Hall