Nonfiction Books Thread
I finally got around to reading Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save.
I'm pretty much sold on the whole Effective Altruism venture, but I found the book quite disappointing. The chapters on arguments for greater charitable giving don't go far beyond appeals to moral intuition, and Singer's rebuttals to common counterarguments focus on arguments that seem particularly weak. I was expecting something a bit more robust from a professional moral philosopher.
There are some reasonable bits on foreign aid, development economics and establishing new cultural standa...
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