Moral circle expansion

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Evaluation

80,000 Hours rates promoting positive values a "potential highest priority area": an issue that, if more thoroughly examined, could rank as a top global challenge.[3]

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    Anthis, Jacy Reese & Eze Paez (2021) Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future, Futures, vol. 130, 104743.

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    Vaughan, Kerry (2016) Three heuristics for finding cause X, Effective Altruism, November 4.

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    80,000 Hours (2022) Our current list of pressing world problems, 80,000 Hours.

Moral circle expansion is the attempt to expand the perceived boundaries of the category of moral patients. It has been proposed as a priority cause area (Anthis & Paez 2021)[1] and as a heuristic for discovering cause X (Vaughan 2016).[2]

BibliographyFurther reading

Karnofsky, Holden (2017) Radical empathy, Open Philanthropy, February 16.

Laham, Simon M. (2009) Expanding the moral circle: inclusion and exclusion mindsets and the circle of moral regard, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 45, pp. 250–253.

Singer, Peter (1981) The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Slinsky, Grue (2019) The moral circle is not a circle, Effective Altruism Forum, August 14.

External links

Section on the  expanding moral circle in MacAskill, Will & Darius Meissner (2020) Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online Textbook, Oxford.

Related entries

moral advocacy | moral patienthood | moral weight | speciesism | value lock-in

  1. ^

    Anthis, Jacy Reese & Eze Paez (2021) Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future, Futures, vol. 130, p. 104743.

  2. ^

    Karnofsky, Holden (2017)Vaughan, Kerry (2016) Radical empathyThree heuristics for finding cause X, Open Philanthropy, February 16.

    Laham, Simon M. (2009) Expanding the moral circle: inclusion and exclusion mindsets and the circle of moral regard, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 45, pp. 250–253.

    Singer, Peter (1981) The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    Slinsky, Grue (2019) The moral circle is not a circle, Effective Altruism Forum, August 14.November 4.

    External links

    Section on the  expanding moral circle in MacAskill, Will & Darius Meissner (2020) Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online Textbook, Oxford.

    Related entries

    moral advocacy | moral patienthood | moral weight | speciesism | value lock-in

Moral circle expansion is the attempt to expand the perceived boundaries of the category of moral patients. It has been proposed as a priority cause area (Anthis & Paez 2021) and as a heuristic for discovering cause X (Vaughan 2016).

Anthis, Jacy Reese (2018) Why I prioritize moral circle expansion over artificial intelligence alignment, Effective Altruism Forum, February 20.

Anthis, Jacy Reese & Eze Paez (2021) Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future, Futures, vol. 130, p. 104743.

Karnofsky, Holden (2017) Radical empathy, Open Philanthropy, February 16.

Laham, Simon M. (2009) Expanding the moral circle: inclusion and exclusion mindsets and the circle of moral regard, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 45, pp. 250–253.

Slinsky, Grue (2019) The moral circle is not a circle, Effective Altruism Forum, August 14.

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