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| Born | Toby David Godfrey Ord July 1979 (age 45) Melbourne, Australia |
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| Spouse | Bernadette Young |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| School | Western philosophy |
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| Thesis | Beyond Action: Applying Consequentialism to Decision Making and Motivation (2009) |
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| Website | www |
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Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979)[3] is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 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.[4]
He was a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, where his work focused on existential risk.[5] His book on the subject, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, was published in March 2020.[6]
- ^ a b c Ord, Toby (3 March 2020). The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1526600219.
- ^ MacAskill, Will (7 July 2016). Doing Good Better. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781783350513.
- ^ "Toby David Godfrey ORD personal appointments". Companies House. GOV.UK. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- ^ "Hachette Book Group, Toby Ord". Hachette Book Group. 9 July 2019. Archived from the original on 7 February 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ "Future of Humanity Institute, Team". Future of Humanity Institute. Archived from the original on 24 December 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Hachette. 9 July 2019. ISBN 9780316484893. Archived from the original on 7 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.