William David MacAskill (né Crouch; born 24 March 1987)[2] is a Scottish philosopher and author, as well as one of the originators of the effective altruism movement.[3][4][5] He was a Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, co-founded Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours,[6] and is the author of Doing Good Better (2015)[7] and What We Owe the Future (2022),[8] and the co-author of Moral Uncertainty (2020).[9]
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^"Centre for Effective Altruism". Companies House. GOV.UK. Director's details changed for William David Crouch on 5 November 2013.
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^Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (8 August 2022). "The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
^Quaade, Sebastian (5 April 2018). "An Interview with William MacAskill, Founding Member of Effective Altruism". The Politic. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^MacAskill, William (2015). Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference. London: Guardian Faber. ISBN 978-1-78335-049-0. OCLC 920597471.
^MacAskill, William (6 December 2021). What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill. Basic Books. ISBN 9781541618633. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
^MacAskill, William; Bykvist, Krister; Ord, Toby (2020). Moral Uncertainty(PDF). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-872227-4.
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