Why don’t we have an entry on EA (and on X-Risk) on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (or IEP, by the way)?
The best we have is a mention en passant of Singer’s “Most good you can do...” inside the “Altruism” entry. Really, it’s just: “If friendships and other loving relationships have a proper place in our lives even if they do not maximize the good, then sentiment is an appropriate basis for altruism. (For an opposing view, see Singer 2015.)” <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism/>
I mean, there’s even a whole new article on the Philosophy of Chemistry! It might not seem important, but SEP is one of the major preliminary sources for researches in Philosophy. It’d be an effective way “spreading the word” among philosophers outside Oxford & Berkeley communities.
(Funny thought: many EA philosophers are cited as major sources in SEP articles about Ethics, decision theory, AI… - but NOT EA)
I see that SEP’s editorial board has the responsibility of defining what’s being published and who’s gonna do it—but there must be something to do about (maybe coordinated mass requests of an EA article? or someone sending a complete article, according to item 3 in the Editorial Policies: ” ualified potential contributors may send to the Principal Editor or an appropriate member of the Editorial Board a preliminary proposal to write on an Encyclopedia topic, along with a curriculum vitae.” <https://plato.stanford.edu/info.html>
I guess all I’ve said so far applies to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosphy, too.
(P.S.: If I’m getting boring with my frequent posts, please let me know)
Great idea! I don’t think mass requests are the way to go, though. I’ll bet if someone like Peter Singer, Will MacAskill, or Toby Ord sent them a proposal to write an article about EA, they’d accept. I sent Will a Facebook message to ask him what he thinks.
Why don’t we have an entry on EA (and on X-Risk) on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (or IEP, by the way)?
The best we have is a mention en passant of Singer’s “Most good you can do...” inside the “Altruism” entry. Really, it’s just: “If friendships and other loving relationships have a proper place in our lives even if they do not maximize the good, then sentiment is an appropriate basis for altruism. (For an opposing view, see Singer 2015.)” <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism/>
I mean, there’s even a whole new article on the Philosophy of Chemistry! It might not seem important, but SEP is one of the major preliminary sources for researches in Philosophy. It’d be an effective way “spreading the word” among philosophers outside Oxford & Berkeley communities.
(Funny thought: many EA philosophers are cited as major sources in SEP articles about Ethics, decision theory, AI… - but NOT EA)
I see that SEP’s editorial board has the responsibility of defining what’s being published and who’s gonna do it—but there must be something to do about (maybe coordinated mass requests of an EA article? or someone sending a complete article, according to item 3 in the Editorial Policies: ” ualified potential contributors may send to the Principal Editor or an appropriate member of the Editorial Board a preliminary proposal to write on an Encyclopedia topic, along with a curriculum vitae.” <https://plato.stanford.edu/info.html>
I guess all I’ve said so far applies to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosphy, too.
(P.S.: If I’m getting boring with my frequent posts, please let me know)
Great idea! I don’t think mass requests are the way to go, though. I’ll bet if someone like Peter Singer, Will MacAskill, or Toby Ord sent them a proposal to write an article about EA, they’d accept. I sent Will a Facebook message to ask him what he thinks.
make a thread and we can try to mass email them
Sorry, I’m new here. You mean making a thread in this forum? I still don’t know how.