I’m reading David Estlund’s new book Utophophobia right now for an symposium at the PPE Society. Estlund’s book got me thinking more about non-ideal theory and the moral status of…

In a previous post, I remarked that philosophers are probably strongly influence by their advisors, and then argued this should cause us to reduce our credence in our own work…

Context: Michael Huemer claims that the “great” philosophers are usually bad thinkers. They defend implausible ideas with bad arguments. Vallier responds that the great philosophers are like architects. Their great…

One of the pastimes of various second- and third-rate intellectual activists is to complain about the perniciousness of Koch money and of other sources of private funding that go to…

“Voting is effective altruism,” many EAs say. Is it, though? It’s weird that so many effective altruists celebrate voting. Here’s why: 1. The question of the best way to calculate…

Brennan in USA Today: Voting is almost never a form of effective altruism. If you want to help others, go to work and donate your earnings to a GiveWell charity.