Giving on the Edge: Effective Altruism’s Post-SBF Comeback After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism — is back and ...

Altruism is unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Like ‘empathy’, ‘altruism’ is a modern term, coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte (d. 1857) from the French autrui, which itself derives ...

Where would you place yourself on the selfless-selfish continuum? Society seems to both implicitly and explicitly adore selflessness (or altruism) and abhor selfishness. From a very early age, we are ...

Maral Attallah and Ronnie Swartz are hosting a series of “Conversations on Altruism” with seasoned academics, researchers, practitioners and educators. The guest speaker Oct. 14 will be Joseph ...