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Richard Y Chappell🔸

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

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Don’t Void Your Pets

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 3, 2025, 8:22 PM
24 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Utili­tar­i­anism.net Up­dates Again

Richard Y Chappell🔸Feb 27, 2025, 3:18 PM
33 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Fac­ing up to the Price on Life

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jan 29, 2025, 5:06 PM
63 points
9 comments3 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Re­fus­ing to Quan­tify is Re­fus­ing to Think (about trade-offs)

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 18, 2024, 6:03 PM
58 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

When is Philos­o­phy Worth Fund­ing?

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 11, 2024, 9:48 PM
32 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Count­ing Costless Beneficence

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 4, 2024, 3:32 PM
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

QB: How Much do Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions Mat­ter?

Richard Y Chappell🔸Oct 18, 2024, 3:22 PM
26 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Richard Y Chap­pell’s Quick takes

Richard Y Chappell🔸Oct 8, 2024, 7:34 PM
8 points
4 commentsEA link

Seek­ing Rip­ple Effects

Richard Y Chappell🔸Oct 8, 2024, 2:00 PM
66 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Ques­tion­ing Benefi­cence: Four Philoso­phers on Effec­tive Altru­ism and Do­ing Good

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 28, 2024, 3:45 PM
35 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Good Judg­ment with Numbers

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 23, 2024, 3:10 PM
62 points
12 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Utili­tar­i­anism.net Updates

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 16, 2024, 10:03 PM
112 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Ex­plicit Ethics

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 20, 2024, 4:17 PM
12 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

‘Open to De­bate’ Singer/​Crary EA de­bate—July 10

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jul 8, 2024, 7:54 PM
113 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Im­perfec­tion is OK

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jul 6, 2024, 6:43 PM
59 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Mo­ral Mis­di­rec­tion (full post)

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 14, 2024, 6:49 PM
45 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

What “Effec­tive Altru­ism” Means to Me

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 14, 2024, 6:13 PM
59 points
18 comments7 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Astro­nom­i­cal Cake

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 5, 2024, 2:12 PM
61 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Against Tau­tolog­i­cal Motivations

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 2, 2024, 7:03 PM
62 points
9 comments3 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Benefi­cen­tric Virtue Ethics

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 16, 2024, 8:54 PM
36 points
14 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)