What a great resource, thanks for putting it together!
Opinionated lists like this feel significantly more useful than comprehensive but unordered lists of relevant resources, because: (i) for most literatures, you’re likely to get most of all the good insights from reading a small standout minority of everything written; and (ii) it’s typically often not obvious to an outsider which resources are best in this respect. I hadn’t heard of many of the books you rate highly.
Incidentally: consider reformatting the papers to not be headers? It makes the navigation bar feel cluttered to me.
Thanks for the support, Fin! I definitely agree with you, and I hope this way people can get most of the bang for their buck and save their research time. This topic is greatly time-inefficient, just because it’s very broad and interdisciplinary, and there was no clear initial indication of what’s good and what’s not. So I think reading from either the “TL;DR / Recommended Reading Order”, or some of the “Five Star” or “Four Star” books, or the “Worthwhile Articles” should be more than enough for the interest of EAs. The rest are more for completeness’ sake.
Hopefully I was able to highlight some hidden gems. For example, Hanno Sauer’s “Moral Teleology”, Victor Kumar’s “A Better Ape” and Philip Kitcher “Moral Progress” have flown under people’s radar, but they’re really good recent contributions. It’s a literature that has grown a bit in the past five years.
Sorry for the headers thing. That was never my intention, I just didn’t know putting something in Bold made it a header. I’ve fixed it now.
What a great resource, thanks for putting it together!
Opinionated lists like this feel significantly more useful than comprehensive but unordered lists of relevant resources, because: (i) for most literatures, you’re likely to get most of all the good insights from reading a small standout minority of everything written; and (ii) it’s typically often not obvious to an outsider which resources are best in this respect. I hadn’t heard of many of the books you rate highly.
Incidentally: consider reformatting the papers to not be headers? It makes the navigation bar feel cluttered to me.
Thanks for the support, Fin! I definitely agree with you, and I hope this way people can get most of the bang for their buck and save their research time. This topic is greatly time-inefficient, just because it’s very broad and interdisciplinary, and there was no clear initial indication of what’s good and what’s not. So I think reading from either the “TL;DR / Recommended Reading Order”, or some of the “Five Star” or “Four Star” books, or the “Worthwhile Articles” should be more than enough for the interest of EAs. The rest are more for completeness’ sake.
Hopefully I was able to highlight some hidden gems. For example, Hanno Sauer’s “Moral Teleology”, Victor Kumar’s “A Better Ape” and Philip Kitcher “Moral Progress” have flown under people’s radar, but they’re really good recent contributions. It’s a literature that has grown a bit in the past five years.
Sorry for the headers thing. That was never my intention, I just didn’t know putting something in Bold made it a header. I’ve fixed it now.