This is super helpful. I'm teaching an upper-level course on Effective Altruism this semester. I hope you don't mind me using this as inspiration for my syllabus.
Have you read Larry Temkin’s critique? I think it’s better than Amia’s and good food for thought although applies more to international aid critiques and only a little to long-termism. Might be useful adding his book in the critiques section.
How I wish I could take that course.
Doesn't David Manley teach a related course at U. Michigan?
He does indeed; I happen to be taking that course! But you can never take too many EA related courses!
This is super helpful. I'm teaching an upper-level course on Effective Altruism this semester. I hope you don't mind me using this as inspiration for my syllabus.
Feel free! Pablo Stafforini has collected a bunch of other useful sample syllabi here:
https://www.stafforini.com/blog/courses-on-longtermism/
I'm currently putting together a new grad syllabus specifically on longtermism, and found the two most useful inspirations to be:
(1) Baker & Elga's Princeton syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/152ZZVnMf0T3OW_RyepObfaGaBVneW-VVtq_9VPCvG_Q/edit
(2) MacAskill & Tarnsey's Topics in Global Priorities Research:
https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/topics-in-global-priorities-research/
Have you read Larry Temkin’s critique? I think it’s better than Amia’s and good food for thought although applies more to international aid critiques and only a little to long-termism. Might be useful adding his book in the critiques section.
https://www.thendobetter.com/arts/2022/7/24/larry-temkin-transitivity-critiques-of-effective-altruism-international-aid-pluralism-podcast
I haven't had a chance to read it yet; thanks for the suggestion!