Essays on Longtermism
Recent years have seen a flurry of interest in longtermism: roughly, the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. Familiar calls to take a long-term view towards global problems such as climate change and poverty typically urge us to plan on a scale...
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2025
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| description | Recent years have seen a flurry of interest in longtermism: roughly, the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. Familiar calls to take a long-term view towards global problems such as climate change and poverty typically urge us to plan on a scale of decades or perhaps a century. By contrast, longtermism asks us to take seriously the idea that what we should do right now may depend on the effects of our actions thousands or even millions of years hence. This volume brings together leading scholars to discuss four sets of overlapping questions raised by longtermism. First, should we accept some version of longtermism? Second, to what extent can we predict and control the far future? Third, which ethical priorities are recommended by longtermism, and how revisionary are they? Finally, what implications would longtermism have for the design or reform of social, political, and legal institutions? Contributors include both supporters and critics of longtermism, and are drawn from a range of disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, law, political science, and mathematics, and from private industry. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1672522025-10-17T05:08:47Z Essays on Longtermism Greaves, Hilary Barrett, Jacob Thorstad, David longtermism, philanthropy, effective altruism, artificial intelligence, existential risk, intergenerational ethics, forecasting thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy Recent years have seen a flurry of interest in longtermism: roughly, the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. Familiar calls to take a long-term view towards global problems such as climate change and poverty typically urge us to plan on a scale of decades or perhaps a century. By contrast, longtermism asks us to take seriously the idea that what we should do right now may depend on the effects of our actions thousands or even millions of years hence. This volume brings together leading scholars to discuss four sets of overlapping questions raised by longtermism. First, should we accept some version of longtermism? Second, to what extent can we predict and control the far future? Third, which ethical priorities are recommended by longtermism, and how revisionary are they? Finally, what implications would longtermism have for the design or reform of social, political, and legal institutions? Contributors include both supporters and critics of longtermism, and are drawn from a range of disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, law, political science, and mathematics, and from private industry. 2025-10-17T05:08:47Z 2025-10-17T05:08:47Z 2025-10-16T15:35:22Z 2025 book ONIX_20251016T173031_9780192883858_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106519 9780192883858 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167252 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106519/1/9780192883858.pdf Oxford University Press doi.org/10.1093/9780191979972.001.0001 doi.org/10.1093/9780191979972.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780192883858 608 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | longtermism, philanthropy, effective altruism, artificial intelligence, existential risk, intergenerational ethics, forecasting thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy Essays on Longtermism |
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| topic | longtermism, philanthropy, effective altruism, artificial intelligence, existential risk, intergenerational ethics, forecasting thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy |
| topic_facet | longtermism, philanthropy, effective altruism, artificial intelligence, existential risk, intergenerational ethics, forecasting thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy |
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