What is effective altruism? What motivates it? And what about the many objections to effective altruism? JD Bauman and Matthew Adelstein join me to talk about these topics and more. Like the show? Help it grow! Consider becoming a patron (thanks!): https://www.patreon.com/majestyofreason If you wanna make a one-time donation or tip (thanks!): https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josephcschmid OUTLINE 0:00 Intro 1:16 What is effective altruism? 4:04 Motivating effective altruism 9:25 Utilitarianism objection 15:57 Incommensurability objection 23:44 Demandingness objection 29:10 Earn-to-give objection 33:26 Individualism, institutional critique, and capitalism 39:28 Too longtermist 47:50 Triviality objection 50:10 Sociological criticisms at the margins 56:15 Epistemic objection 1:00:08 Timmerman’s dilemma 1:10:08 Incompatible with Christianity 1:11:38 Conclusion RESOURCES (1) GiveWell (for a well-researched list of effective charities): https://www.givewell.org/ (2) Christians for Impact (JD's organization): https://bit.ly/3Ca1sLT (3) 80,000 hours website: https://80000hours.org/ (4) EA for Christians: https://www.eaforchristians.org/ (5) One For the World (1% pledge): https://1fortheworld.org/ (6) Giving What We Can (10% pledge): https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ (7) Matthew's YouTube channel: @deliberationunderidealcond5105 (8) Matthew's substack: https://benthams.substack.com/ (9) JD's YouTube channel: @eaforchristians460 (10) My video with Dr. Travis Timmerman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mySfT7wMVRo (11) The MacAskill & Pummer article I mentioned: https://philpapers.org/rec/PUMEA (12) My Applied Ethics playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkaYPueOwJRE0CPj6xyIWfxb (13) My Springer book: (a) https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs-ebook/dp/B0BNMHRW63 (b) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2 THE USUAL... Follow the Majesty of Reason podcast! https://open.spotify.com/show/4Nda5uNcGselvKphtKSKvH Join the Discord and chat all things philosophy! https://dsc.gg/majestyofreason My website: https://josephschmid.com My PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/joseph-schmid