What is effective altruism? What motivates it? And what about the many objections to effective altruism? JD Bauman and Matthew Adelstein join me to talk about these topics and more.Like the show? Help it grow! Consider becoming a patron (thanks!): https://www.patreon.com/majestyofreasonIf you wanna make a one-time donation or tip (thanks!): https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josephcschmidOUTLINE0:00 Intro1:16 What is effective altruism?4:04 Motivating effective altruism9:25 Utilitarianism objection15:57 Incommensurability objection23:44 Demandingness objection29:10 Earn-to-give objection33:26 Individualism, institutional critique, and capitalism39:28 Too longtermist47:50 Triviality objection50:10 Sociological criticisms at the margins56:15 Epistemic objection1:00:08 Timmerman’s dilemma1:10:08 Incompatible with Christianity1:11:38 ConclusionRESOURCES(1) GiveWell (for a well-researched list of effective charities): https://www.givewell.org/(2) Christians for Impact (JD's organization): https://bit.ly/3Ca1sLT(3) 80,000 hours website: https://80000hours.org/(4) EA for Christians: https://www.eaforchristians.org/(5) One For the World (1% pledge): https://1fortheworld.org/(6) Giving What We Can (10% pledge): https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/(7) Matthew's YouTube channel: @deliberationunderidealcond5105 (8) Matthew's substack: https://benthams.substack.com/(9) JD's YouTube channel: @eaforchristians460 (10) My video with Dr. Travis Timmerman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mySfT7wMVRo(11) The MacAskill & Pummer article I mentioned: https://philpapers.org/rec/PUMEA(12) My Applied Ethics playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkaYPueOwJRE0CPj6xyIWfxb(13) My Springer book: (a) https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs-ebook/dp/B0BNMHRW63 (b) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2THE USUAL...Follow the Majesty of Reason podcast! https://open.spotify.com/show/4Nda5uNcGselvKphtKSKvHJoin the Discord and chat all things philosophy! https://dsc.gg/majestyofreasonMy website: https://josephschmid.comMy PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/joseph-schmid