The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie the class which is the
ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.... The ruling …

Altruism is an ideal which is almost universally approved. It is argued here that such almost
universal acceptance of altruism may be grounded on a failure to interrogate the complexity …

What is most striking in published commentaries on effective altruism written by
philosophers is that they are often derisive and contemptuous in tone yet weak in argument …

Leftwing critiques of philanthropy are not new and so it is unsurprising that the Effective
Altruism movement, which regards philanthropy as one of its tools, has been a target in …

Much of economics is built on the assumption of individuals being driven by self-interest and
economic development as an outcome of the free play of such individuals. On the few …

Page 1 Concepts in the Social Sciences Altruism Niall Scott and Jonathan Seglow Page 2
Altruism Page 3 CONCEPTS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Series editor: Frank Parkin Published …

On this definition, effective altruism is an intellectual and practical project rather than a
normative claim, in the same way that science is an intellectual and practical project rather …

This is the first collective study of the thinking behind the effective altruism movement. This
movement comprises a growing global community of people who organise significant parts …

The author of this book is Professor of Politics and Associate Director of the Program in
Political Psychology at the University of California, Irvine. Her purpose in writing it was not …

Though people value altruism, they also value freely choosing if and when to be altruistic.
They essay explores the question of whether a society that is more altruistic would be one …