[Question] Responses to effective altruism critics

[Ayman]

Does anyone know of good articles that respond to effective altruism criticism? Something like William Macaskill’s “aid scepticism and effective altruism”, bearing in mind that I have access to academic journals.

[Pablo]

Hilary Greaves’s presentation, The collectivist critique of effective altruism. Like everything by Greaves, it’s excellent.

[Ayman]

Thanks!

[JacobS]

This is a classic: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​hvYvH6wabAoXHJjsC/​​philosophical-critiques-of-effective-altruism-by-prof-jeff

[Ayman]

Thanks!

[Aaron Gertler]

CEA maintains a page of “common objections to effective altruism”. It hasn’t been updated for a while, but I think it provides reasonable responses to some points that I still see critics make often.

[Ayman]

Thanks!

[Pablo]

Since you mentioned an article by Will MacAskill as an example, you may be interested in another article of his, The definition of effective altruism, sect. 4 of which discusses a number of “misunderstandings of effective altruism”.

[Ayman]

Thanks!

[james]

Effective Altruism and its Critics, Iason Gabriel, Journal of Applied Philosophy

https://​​www.researchgate.net/​​publication/​​294288831_Effective_Altruism_and_its_Critics

[Ayman]

Thanks!