For last year’s Giving Tuesday, I sketched out an approach to effective charitable giving. This focused on identifying important cause areas and finding high-impact charities within each one. Since there is little change in my thinking or in specific recommendations since then, please give that post a read if you are interested! The approach highlighted… Continue reading Meta-Charities as a Resource for Donors
Month: November 2023
Biological Agency and Free Will
Given my recent interest in the idea of naturalized biological agency (the topic of my last post), I was excited to read Kevin Mitchell’s book—Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will—which develops this notion and connects it to the debate over human free will. Mitchell is a neurogeneticist at Trinity College (Dublin); he blogs… Continue reading Biological Agency and Free Will