The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Critical Essays on Effective Altruism

Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, Lori Gruen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-765570-2 (ISBN)

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The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community organizing efforts. By drawing attention to these responses and to particular cases of human and animal harms, this book represents a powerful call to attend to different voices and projects and to elevate activist traditions that EA lacks the resources to assess and threatens to squelch. The contributors reveal the weakness inherent within the ready-made, top-down solutions that EA offers in response to many global problems-and offers in their place substantial descriptions of more meaningful and just social engagement.

Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University where she founded and coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. Carol J. Adams is a feminist scholar and activist whose work explores the cultural construction of overlapping and interconnected oppressions, as well as the ethics of care.

Foreword: Amia Srinivisan
Introduction: Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen
Acknowledgements

1 How Effective Altruism Fails Community-Based Activism
Brenda Sanders

2 Effective Altruism's Unsuspecting 21st Century Colonialism
Simone De Lima

3 Anti-Blackness and the Effective Altruist
Christopher Sebastian

4 Animal Advocacy's Stockholm Syndrome
DeCoriolis, Aaron S. Gross, Steve J. Gross, and Joseph Tuminello (Farm Forward)

5 Who Counts? Effective Altruism and the Problem of Numbers in the History of American Wildlife Conservation
Michael D. Wise

6 Diversifying Effective Altruism Longshots in Animal Advocacy: An Invitation to Prioritize Black Vegans, Higher Education, and Religious Communities
Matthew C. Halteman

7 A Christian Critique of the Effective Altruism Approach to Animal Philanthropy
David L. Clough

8 Queer Eye on the EA Guys
pattrice jones

9 A Feminist-Ethics-of-Care Critique of Effective Altruism
Carol J. Adams

10 The Empty Promises of Cultured Meat
Elan Abrell

11 How 'Alternative Proteins' Create a Private Solution to a Public Problem
Michele Simon

12 The Power of Love to Transform Animal Lives: The Deception of Animal Quantification
Krista Hiddema

13 Our Partners, The Animals: Reflections from a Farmed Animal Sanctuary
Kathy Stevens

14 The Wisdom Gained from Animals Who Self-Liberate
Rachel McCrystal

15 Effective Altruism and the Reified Mind
John Sanbonmatsu

16 Against 'Effective Altruism'
Alice Crary

17 The Change We Need
Lori Gruen

Coda: Future-oriented Effective Altruism: What's wrong with longtermism?
Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen

Erscheinungsdatum	27.01.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 140 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-19-765570-X / 019765570X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-765570-2 / 9780197655702
Zustand	Neuware