Richard Y Chappell🔸

Academic philosopher, co-editor of utilitarianism.net, writes goodthoughts.blog

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Richard Y Chappell's Quick takes
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-10-08 | +8 | 0 comments
Seeking Ripple Effects
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-10-08 | +46 | 0 comments
Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-09-28 | +34 | 0 comments
Good Judgment with Numbers
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-09-23 | +60 | 0 comments
Utilitarianism.net Updates
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-09-16 | +112 | 0 comments
Explicit Ethics
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-08-20 | +12 | 0 comments
'Open to Debate' Singer/Crary EA debate - July 10
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-07-08 | +111 | 0 comments
Imperfection is OK
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-07-06 | +59 | 0 comments
Moral Misdirection (full post)
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-14 | +43 | 0 comments
What "Effective Altruism" Means to Me
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-14 | +57 | 0 comments
Astronomical Cake
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-05 | +60 | 0 comments
Against Tautological Motivations
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-02 | +62 | 0 comments
Beneficentric Virtue Ethics
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-05-16 | +36 | 0 comments
A trilogy on anti-philanthropic misdirection
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-04-05 | +103 | 0 comments
EA "Worldviews" Need Rethinking
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-03-18 | +287 | 0 comments
The Dangers of a Little Knowledge
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-01-02 | +30 | 0 comments
Doing Good Effectively is Unusual
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-12-01 | +174 | 0 comments
Confessions of a Cheeseburger Ethicist
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-11-17 | +33 | 0 comments
Against Conditional Beneficence
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-11-09 | +13 | 0 comments
Utilitarianism.net Audio
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-08-09 | +34 | 0 comments
Uncertain Optimizing and Opportunity Costs
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-08-04 | +28 | 0 comments
X-risk Agnosticism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-06-08 | +34 | 0 comments
Review of Animal Liberation Now
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-05-23 | +81 | 0 comments
Why Not EA? [paper draft]
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-05-09 | +47 | 0 comments
Review of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-05-02 | +213 | 0 comments
The Latest NYT article on EA/SBF
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-02-21 | +26 | 0 comments
Deontic Fictionalism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-02-17 | +37 | 0 comments
Good Thoughts (substack) 2022 review
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-12-30 | +21 | 0 comments
Saving Lives vs Creating Lives
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-12-15 | +45 | 0 comments
Reflections on Vox's "How effective altruism let SBF happen"
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-12-12 | +144 | 0 comments
Naïve vs Prudent Utilitarianism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-11-11 | +97 | 0 comments
Consequentialism and Cluelessness
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-10-17 | +32 | 0 comments
Puzzles for Everyone
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-09-10 | +116 | 0 comments
How Useful is Utilitarianism?
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-09-08 | +18 | 0 comments
The Nietzschean Challenge to Effective Altruism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-08-29 | +102 | 0 comments
New Guest Essays on Hedonism [Utilitarianism.net]
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-08-26 | +39 | 0 comments
Review of WWOTF
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-08-15 | +25 | 0 comments
Meat Externalities
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-07-11 | +80 | 0 comments
Buddhism and Utilitarianism; EA vs EB
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-06-23 | +52 | 0 comments
The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-06-07 | +89 | 0 comments
Yglesias on EA and politics
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-05-23 | +79 | 0 comments
Leveling-up Impartiality
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-05-19 | +36 | 0 comments
New substack on utilitarian ethics: Good Thoughts
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-05-09 | +50 | 0 comments
Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-04-28 | +27 | 0 comments
Philanthropy Vouchers as Systemic Change
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2019-07-11 | +12 | 0 comments
Charity Vouchers [public policy idea]
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2019-07-10 | +9 | 0 comments