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portada Essays on Longtermism. Present Action for the Distant Future
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
608
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
25.4x18.2x4.4 cm
ISBN13
9780192883858

Essays on Longtermism. Present Action for the Distant Future

David Thorstad;Jacob Barrett;Hilary Greaves (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

Essays on Longtermism. Present Action for the Distant Future - David Thorstad;Jacob Barrett;Hilary Greaves

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Synopsis "Essays on Longtermism. Present Action for the Distant Future"


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\nEssays on Longtermism brings together leading scholars to address questions raised by the longtermist approach to ethical issues. The volume addresses the viability of longtermism, the possibility of predicting and control the far future, and the consequences of longtermist thinking on current political and moral problems.
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\nThis 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.

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