Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
By: Larissa MacFarquhar
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How far do you really go to "do unto others"? New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar reveals the…
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1. How to Read Lacan
By: Slavoj Žižek , Simon Critchley
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The How to Readseries provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your un… read more
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- philosophy
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- psychology
2. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
By: Alex Epstein
4.12
Format: None pages,
A sure-to-be-controversial defense of the fossil fuel industry Conventional wisdom says fossil fuel… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
3. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By: Alan Greenspan
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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- biography
4. Writings on an Ethical Life
By: Peter Singer
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Love him or hate him, you certainly can't ignore him. For the past twenty years, Australian philoso… read more
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- science
5. Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
By: Larissa MacFarquhar
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How far do you really go to "do unto others"? New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar reveals the… read more
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6. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
By: Andre Dubus III , James Alan McPherson , Breece D'J Pancake
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the… read more
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7. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
By: Niall Ferguson , Dambisa Moyo
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from… read more
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8. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
9. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
By: Bryan Caplan
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Hardcover
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobby… read more
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10. Animal Liberation
By: Peter Singer
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more
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11. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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12. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
By: Paul Bloom
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of other… read more
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13. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
By: William MacAskill
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem … read more
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14. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
15. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
By: Julia Galef
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Ju… read more
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- psychology
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"At the end of the day, we're a bunch of apes whose brains were optimized for defending ourselves and our tribes, not for doing unbiased evaluations of scientific evidence. So why get angry at humanit…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
"The scout isn’t indifferent. A scout might hope to learn that the path is safe, that the other side is weak, or that there’s a bridge conveniently located where his forces need to cross the river. Bu…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
16. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
By: David Edmonds
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more
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17. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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18. The Precipice
By: Toby Ord
4.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central ch… read more
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"If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of futu…"-Toby Ord, The Precipice
19. The Replacing Guilt Series
By: Nate Soares
4.44
Format: 204 pages, ebook
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"This is a short public service announcement: you don't have to fail with abandon. Say you're playing Civilization, and your target is to get to sleep before midnight, and you check the clock, and it'…"-Nate Soares, The Replacing Guilt Series
20. The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
By: Peter Singer
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
It is 2021 and the world has experienced unimaginable suffering, death and despair. The pandemic ha… read more
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"Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about."-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
"Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. "-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
"...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong."-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
"Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life."-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
21. Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It
By: Cass R. Sunstein
3.34
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling author of Nudge reveals h ow we became so burdened by red tape and … read more
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