Toby Ord's new book is a startling and rigorous contribution to this genre that deserves to be just as widely read * Evening Standard * Splendid .
Toby Ord is a philosopher at Oxford University, working on the big picture questions facing humanity. US$11.00, US$11.63 Key topics. If you're like me, you read the news with an eye to the present, while dimly aware of some bigger problems, like global warming, looming as long-term, somewhat vague threats to our way of life and perhaps even our existence as a species. . Un livre essentiel pour comprendre les risques auquel fait face l'humanité.
Ord's analysis of the science is exemplary . Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back, Blueprint, with a new afterword: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (The MIT Press), Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man (Modern Library Classics), The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, "A book that seems made for the present moment. E&OE, It is about much more than filling the gaps left by stipendiary clergy, argues Martyn Snow.
Contact Us. Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University, where he works on the big picture questions facing humanity. One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection to keep (you’ll use your first credit now). US$16.95, US$78.06 Despite the topic, the book is actually quite optimistic and inspiring about the opportunity we have before us. Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University. He founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as much as possible. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Ord is a philosopher specializing in ethics at Oxford. The Precipice explores the science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. There could be “natural risks”: an asteroid strike, a supervolcanic eruption, a stellar explosion. His current research is on risks that threaten human extinction or the permanent collapse of civilization, and on how to safeguard humanity through these dangers, which he considers to be among the most pressing and neglected issues we face. Available. US$13.00, US$17.22 His work focuses on the big picture questions facing humanity.
His earlier work explored the ethics of global poverty, leading him to make a lifelong pledge to donate 10% of his income to the most effective charities helping improve the world. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Unable to add item to List.
In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. . US$9.48, US$11.26 With the current carona virus being a "risk" that is real, his use of pandemic risk was/is very timely. US$14.95, US$24.06 The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity is a 2020 non-fiction book by the Australian philosopher Toby Ord, of the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford.It argues that safeguarding humanity's future is among the most important moral issues of our time.