William MacAskill - Wikipedia

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 Scottish philosopher and ethicist (born 1987) 
 
 

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 ( 1987-03-24 ) 24 March 1987 (age   39) 
 Glasgow , Scotland Spouse 

 Amanda Askell ​ ( divorced ) ​ [ 1 ] Education Education 
 Jesus College, Cambridge ( BA , 2008)

 St Edmund Hall, Oxford ( BPhil , 2010)

 St Anne's College, Oxford ( DPhil , 2014)
 

 Thesis Normative Uncertainty   (2014) Doctoral advisors 
 John Broome 

 Krister Bykvist   [ sv ] 
 

 Philosophical work Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy Institutions 
 Emmanuel College, Cambridge 

 Lincoln College, Oxford 

 Global Priorities Institute 
 

 Main interests Ethics
 political philosophy 
 decision theory 
 Notable ideas Effective altruism 
 longtermism 
 
 Website williammacaskill .com 
 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 ] 

 Early life and education

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 MacAskill was born William Crouch in 1987 and grew up in Glasgow . [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 10 ] He was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow. [ 11 ] At the age of 15, after learning about how many people were dying as a result of AIDS , he made the decision to work towards becoming wealthy and giving away half of his money. [ 12 ] At the age of 18, MacAskill read Peter Singer 's 1972 essay " Famine, Affluence, and Morality ", which motivated his philosophical and charitable interests. [ 5 ] 

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