Essays on Longtermism

NOTE EDITORE

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. Longtermism, broadly speaking, is the view that positively influencing the long-term future is one of the key moral priorities of our time. Calls for taking a long-term view towards global problems such as climate change and poverty are familiar, typically urging us to plan on a scale of decades or perhaps a century. By contrast, longtermism asks us to take seriously the idea that what we should do right now may depend on the effects of our actions thousands, even millions, of years into the future. Essays on Longtermism brings together leading scholars to discuss four sets of overlapping questions raised by the longtermist approach. First, should we accept some version of longtermism? Second, to what extent can we predict and control the far future? Third, which ethical priorities are recommended by longtermism, and how revisionary are they? Finally, what implications would longtermism have for the design or reform of social, political, and legal institutions? Contributors, who include both supporters and critics of longtermism, are drawn from a range of disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, law, political science, and mathematics, and from private industry.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction2 - The Case for Strong Longtermism3 - Longtermism and Neutrality about More Lives4 - Prudential Longtermism5 - Would a World Without Us Be Worse? Clues from Population Axiology6 - Longtermism in an Infinite World7 - Longtermism and the Complaints of Future People8 - Against a Moral Duty to Make the Future Go Best9 - Authenticity, Meaning, and Alienation: Reasons to Care Less about Far-Future People10 - What Are the Prospects of Forecasting the Far Future?11 - Taking the Long View: Paleobiological Perspectives on Longtermism12 - Coping with Myopia13 - Shaping Humanity's Longterm Trajectory14 - Longtermism and Cultural Evolution15 - The Hinge of History and the Choice between Patient and Urgent Longtermism16 - How Much Should Governments Pay to Prevent Catastrophes? Longtermism's Limited Role17 - Longtermist Myopia18 - Minimal and Expansive Longtermism19 - What Would a Longtermist Society Look Like?20 - Is Extinction Risk Mitigation Uniquely Cost-Effective? Not in Standard Population Models21 - Depopulation and Longtermism22 - Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI23 - Deceit and Power: Machine Learning and Misalignment24 - The Ethics, Economics, and Demographics of Delaying Aging25 - Longtermism and Animals26 - Longtermist Political Philosophy: An Agenda for Future Research27 - Retrospective Accountability: A Mechanism for Representing Future Generations28 - Longtermism and Social Risk-Taking29 - The Short-Termism of 'Hard' Economics30 - The Intuitive Appeal of Legal Protection for Future Generations31 - Temporal Distance Reduces Ingroup Favoritism

AUTORE

Hilary Greaves is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Her research interests range broadly across ethics, but with a particular focus around issues of axiology and those lying at the interface with economics. Greaves' theoretical work has spanned, among other things, utilitarian aggregation, population axiology, interpersonal comparisons of well-being, moral uncertainty, discounting, and cluelessness. She also has worked on various issues of practical ethics, including healthcare prioritization, population size, global poverty, climate change, artificial intelligence and existential risk. From 2017 to 2022, Greaves served as Founding Director of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. Jacob Barrett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Vanderbilt University, and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on social, moral, and political philosophy, and especially on questions relating to long-run social reform. David Thorstad is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford, and Research Affiliate at the MINT Lab, ANU. Thorstad's research focuses on bounded rationality, global priorities research, and the ethics of emerging technologies.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780192883858
• Dimensioni: 250 x 40.0 x 175 mm Ø 1215 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 608