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Animal welfare10

• Popular cause priorities within effective altruism include global health and development, social inequality, animal welfare, and risks to the survival of humanity over the long-term future. (wikipedia.org)
• How should one compare global poverty vs other potential causes (e.g. climate change, animal welfare, etc. (philosophyetc.net)
• Sometimes controversial, always practical ethicist Peter Singer stirs public debate about morality, from animal welfare to global poverty. (ted.com)
• Historically, the US farmed animal welfare movement has seen itself as working in opposition to the entire animal agriculture industry. (effectivealtruism.org)
• In particular, I argue that the US beef industry could be a critical ally in the fight for farmed animal welfare. (effectivealtruism.org)
• The meat packers have interests across chicken, pork, and beef, so will likely oppose animal welfare improvements in any area. (effectivealtruism.org)
• Additionally, I believe that cattle ranchers, who are generally small business owners, often do care about animal welfare. (effectivealtruism.org)
• Partnering with the beef industry could be useful in building broader coalitions than the animal welfare movement historically has been able to. (effectivealtruism.org)
• Historically, the animal welfare movement has sought an alliance with the environmental movement, but more recently this alliance has come into question given that most of meat's carbon footprint is from beef. (effectivealtruism.org)
• Advances in animal welfare science. (bvsalud.org)

Parental Altruism5

• The Elasticity of Intergenerational Substitution, Parental Altruism, and Fertility Choice ," Staff General Research Papers Archive 37766, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
• The Elasticity of Intergenerational Substitution, Parental Altruism, and Fertility Choice ," Review of Economic Studies , Oxford University Press, vol. 86(5), pages 1935-1972. (repec.org)
• The Elasticity of Intergenerational Substitution, Parental Altruism, and Fertility Choice ," Working Paper 6397, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh. (repec.org)
• The Elasticity of Intergenerational Substitution, Parental Altruism, and Fertility Choice ," 2017 Meeting Papers 428, Society for Economic Dynamics. (repec.org)
• The elasticity of intergenerational substitution, parental altruism, and fertility choice ," ISU General Staff Papers 201406010700001025, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)

Reciprocal altruism1

• Other approaches to the evolutionary puzzle of altruism also appeared in the next half-century: the ability to expect and receive reciprocal altruism, the benefits to an individual's reputation, cooperation in games where the cumulative payoff beats defection, and other models. (prospect.org)

Altruistic4

• Altruistic preferences of various forms may cause difficulties in welfare economics. (ssb.no)
• Combining past behaviour with preference elicitation opens new avenues of research to better understand and handle altruistic preferences in SP and welfare economics. (ssb.no)
• This paper develops a two-country framework with mobile altruistic taxpayers and immobile welfare recipients. (uni-muenchen.de)
• It shows that under the assumption of taxpayers motivated by warm glow altruism, tax competition leads to unique pure strategy Nash equilibria in taxation which are different from zero given sufficiently strong altruistic preferences. (uni-muenchen.de)

Unselfish2

• Anyone who has an unselfish concern for the welfare of another person or of other people. (getwords.com)
• Altruism is the unselfish regard for the welfare of others, a trait highly revered and sometimes difficult to find in government. (sibfl.net)

Concern for the welfare1

• Altruism is the principle and moral practice of concern for the welfare and happiness of other human beings or animals, resulting in both material and spiritual quality of life. (disabled-world.com)

Philosophy2

• Ethical egoism with respect to philosophy is defined as pursuit of your own welfare and interests: making personal welfare and interests your primary or only concern, sometimes at the expense of others. (exampleessays.com)
• That's the view of Dr Toby Ord, a philosophy Fellow at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the effective altruism community. (google.com)

Singer1

• Singer published The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically in 2015. (wikipedia.org)

Oxford Unive1

• In 2019, Oxford University Press published the volume Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues, edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer. (wikipedia.org)

MacAskill4

• Effective altruism proponent MacAskill claims this has broad applications to the prioritization of scientific projects, entrepreneurial ventures, and policy initiatives estimated to save the most lives or reduce the most suffering. (wikipedia.org)
• In the same year, the Scottish philosopher and ethicist William MacAskill published Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference. (wikipedia.org)
• Bankman-Fried founded the FTX Future Fund, which brought on MacAskill as one of its advisers, and which paid a $13.9 million grant to the Centre for Effective Altruism where MacAskill holds a board role. (wikipedia.org)
• However, several leaders of the effective altruism movement, including William MacAskill and Robert Wiblin, condemned FTX's actions. (wikipedia.org)

Moral2

• As such, the welfare of future generations should be our number one moral concern. (google.com)
• While the recent attempts of Thomas Nagel and Alan Gewirth to forward the basically Kantian enterprise of showing that altruism is a rational requirement on action have been much discussed by moral philosophers, Wilfrid Sellars' attempt to argue for a similar thesis has been largely ignored. (ditext.com)

Versus1

• The second issue I want to explore is egoism versus altruism. (exampleessays.com)

Donations4

• We find that respondents' past donations are associated with higher WTP in the CV surveys, also when controlling for stated altruism, ecological and environmental attitudes, and respondent characteristics. (ssb.no)
• The strong association between past donations and higher WTP imply that altruism is an even more important factor in explaining the substantial non-use values found in SP than assumed. (ssb.no)
• Andreoni, J. (1990), Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving, The Economic Journal, Vol. 100, No. 401, pp. 464-477. (uni-muenchen.de)
• Altruism is more than just monetary donations. (sibfl.net)

Regard1

• A devotion to and regard for the interests or welfare of others. (getwords.com)

Altruist2

• If a gene affects altruism in such a way that the altruism is more likely to be directed at close relatives, the gene can spread in the population despite the cost imposed on the altruist. (prospect.org)
• Moreover, if the costs of the actions are not borne by the altruist (e.g. by defrauding customers, or extortion), I would not consider it altruism. (lesswrong.com)

Ethical theory3

• This will necessitate my spending some time setting out the main outline of Sellars' ethical theory in order that his defense of altruism can be seen as an integral part of it. (ditext.com)
• Nevertheless, it is clear that one of the fundamental aims of his ethical theory is to show that it is a rational requirement on action that agents attend to the welfare of their fellows. (ditext.com)
• My strategy here will be, in section I, to sketch in the main lines of his ethical theory relevant to his discussion of altruism and in the following two sections to raise two related lines of criticism. (ditext.com)

Exist1

• Does Altruism Exist? (prospect.org)

Happiness1

• Aquarius is the impersonal, future-oriented, Fixed Air sign that's about fairness, altruism, and improving the welfare and happiness of all people. (lovetoknow.com)

Definition1

• For the duration of this essay, "egoism" and "ethical egoism" will refer to the above definition, and "altruism" will refer to the opinion that one should always act in a way that will benefit others. (exampleessays.com)

Principle1

• Principle of primacy of patient welfare. (abimfoundation.org)

20221

• After the company's collapse in late 2022, Bankman-Fried's relationship with effective altruism has been called into question as a public relations strategy, while the movement's embrace of him proved damaging to its reputation. (wikipedia.org)

Economics1

• Once you grasp the logic of collective action, basic economics strongly supports a conclusion that economists rarely advertise: Genuine altruism is all around us. (econlib.org)

Motivation2

• Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one's welfare. (disabled-world.com)
• and added that altruism is a motivation rather than a set of actions, but this is rather preliminary. (lesswrong.com)

Preferences3

• If countries are asymmetric with respect to the number of welfare recipients, pure altruism and inequity aversion preferences support additional unique pure strategy Nash equilibria in which the country with the fewer poor attracts more taxpayers and sets higher taxes. (uni-muenchen.de)
• Andreoni, J. and J. Miller (2002), Giving According to GARP: An Experimental Test of the Consistency of Preferences for Altruism, Econometrica, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 737-753. (uni-muenchen.de)
• Giving according to GARP: An experimental test of the consistency of preferences for altruism. (uni-muenchen.de)

Typically1

• However, studies analysing the effect of altruism on willingness to pay (WTP) have underappreciated the challenges in measuring altruism by the stated measures typically used. (ssb.no)

State8

• The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as "a motivational state to increase another's welfare. (disabled-world.com)
• Would you like to shrink the welfare state? (uni-muenchen.de)
• Food insecurity drives people to seek public assistance (e.g., food stamps and other forms of welfare) that strain state and local budgets. (shareable.net)
• An interesting discussion developed in the comments to Thursday's post about the massive and inevitable corruption that accompanies the modern welfare state. (blogspot.com)
• By Socialism I mean a political system which coercively extracts a large proportion of private wealth from its citizens, and then redistributes it for purposes which are decided by administrative fiat in a huge and powerful welfare state. (blogspot.com)
• I agree that we can't just abandon the welfare state without a lot of suffering for ordinary people who depend on it. (blogspot.com)
• It was not the lack of the welfare state, but the lack of societal wealth, that caused that kind of suffering. (blogspot.com)
• There was virtually no welfare state, yet it was extremely rare for anyone to starve, or to live in destitution outside of the big-city immigrant ghettoes. (blogspot.com)

People3

• I very much dislike the second sentence in this tag: "If you do something to feel good about helping people, or even to be a better person in some spiritual sense, it isn't truly altruism. (lesswrong.com)
• Altruism is the accumulation of a group of people who are committed to making the community and region a better place for all living in it. (sibfl.net)
• Doing away with welfare altogether would leave a lot of people starving or freezing. (blogspot.com)

Social5

• He mainly works on animal sentience, cognition and welfare and the evolution of altruism and social behaviour. (lse.ac.uk)
• UK higher education humanities & social sciences health & social welfare. (lse.ac.uk)
• The fundamental principles of the Charter are the primacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice . (abimfoundation.org)
• To maintain the fidelity of medicine's social contract during this turbulent time, we believe that physicians must reaffirm their active dedication to the principles of professionalism, which entails not only their personal commitment to the welfare of their patients but also collective efforts to improve the health care system for the welfare of society. (abimfoundation.org)
• In contrast, researchers have found--at least in the immediate aftermath of disasters--that community resilience and unity, strengthening of social ties, self- help, heightened initiative, altruism, and prosocial behavior more often prevail. (cdc.gov)

Ethics2

• More importantly, he develops his defense of altruism within the context of the comprehensive theory of practical reason he has developed over the years, and this theoretical background makes his views on ethics of special interest. (ditext.com)
• A second difficulty is that Sellars does not himself frame his discussion of the foundations of ethics in terms of a defense of altruism. (ditext.com)

Effective6

• The movement developed during the 2000s, and the name effective altruism was coined in 2011. (wikipedia.org)
• the "Centre for Effective Altruism" was selected. (wikipedia.org)
• 18 The Effective Altruism Global conference has been held since 2013. (wikipedia.org)
• In a 2023 Time magazine article, seven women reported misconduct and controversy in the effective altruism movement. (wikipedia.org)
• No longer the new kid on the block, Effective Altruism (EA) has evolved from its early days in the quadrangles of the University of Oxford to become a thriving community with a well-established architecture of philanthropic institutions. (cgdev.org)
• How does Effective Altruism approach cause prioritisation? (cgdev.org)

Difficulties1

• The thrust of these lines of criticism will be to suggest that there are certain difficulties with Sellars' use of the notion of intrinsic reasonableness to characterize intentions, and that these difficulties call into question his overall defense of altruism. (ditext.com)

Rational2

• Does this view of altruism also depend on the idea of rational irrationality? (econlib.org)
• 2 I would like instead to set out as briefly as I can Sellars' defense of the thesis that altruism is a rational requirement on action, and then to treat it to some critical attention. (ditext.com)

Collective1

• But on reflection, the logic of collective action is compelling evidence for the power of altruism. (econlib.org)

Health1

• Group selection departs from the more familiar model of individual selection that sees the evolutionary prize going to the individual, male or female, who has more surviving offspring, regardless of health and life-span, much less altruism. (prospect.org)

Future1

• Results provide a framework for directing more efficient future decision making regarding sinkings at locations that will enhance welfare for divers. (repec.org)

Idea1

• If you're not motivated by the sheer altruism of the idea, think of it this way. (shareable.net)

Role1

• Instead, we exploit a naturally occurring decision domain to investigate the role of altruism in SP. (ssb.no)

Person1

• Psychological egoism is a reflex that every person has to orient themselves toward their own welfare. (exampleessays.com)

Board1

• Additionally, if the goal is to eventually pass stronger federal legislation for poultry welfare, having the beef industry on board could be a critical necessary step. (effectivealtruism.org)

Sense1

• In this sense, altruism is a categorization tag placed on actions. (lesswrong.com)

Primary1

• Researchers referred to this tendency as "prosocial resonance" or "mirroring impulse" , and they believe the impulse to be a primary driving force behind altruism. (disabled-world.com)

Strong1

• I'll explore an alternative approach of working with parts of the meat industry to mutually push for strong welfare protections in other parts, focusing on chicken and beef. (effectivealtruism.org)

Suggest1

• Common tax competition models suggest that welfare states will undercut each other's tax rate to attract taxpayers and keep welfare recipients at bay. (uni-muenchen.de)