Jacob Barrett

assistant professor of philosophy and political science @VanderbiltU

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

https://t.co/QWnqdhaOHL

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

New paper out (open access) at PPA! Philanthropy and democracy can seem at odds, but what about philanthropy that specifically aims to benefit the disenfranchised? I argue that we can and should encourage this, while discouraging certain other sorts of philanthropy. (link below)

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

I just finished this superb book by Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett. Charles Mills and Amartya Sen have persuasively argued that the Ideal/Non-Ideal distinction is critical to thinking about normative dimensions of inequality and in conceptualizing policy remedies. This book succeeds in synthesizing conceptual issues in 66 pages and does so with exceptional clarity and accessibility.

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

@sndurlauf thank you for reading and for the kind words!

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

https://t.co/WatU22FwPu

(Due to a metadata error the book is currently listed under Elements in Political Psychology—but ignore that! The book does touch on related debates in ethics, epistemology, etc., but I promise it is mainly about political philosophy, not psychology.)

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

Curious about the ideal and non-ideal theory debate? My book, Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory, is now out open access with Cambridge Elements in Political Philosophy! Read the book that David Estlund has called "easily the best full treatment of the topic that we have."
(link below)

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

https://t.co/cFwy4us3rH

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

New paper in Political Philosophy: “What Can We Learn from the Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem?” No, diversity doesn’t *trump* ability, but the theorem illuminates a baton-passing mechanism by which diversity can help us find better options (even when we disagree about values!)

[Toby Tremlett @toby_tremlett]

Today, we're launching the 'Essays on Longtermism' competition, over on the EA Forum. Prizes up to $1000, judged by our expert panel: @willmacaskill, @DavidThorstad, Hilary Greaves, @evavivalt, and @JacobAriBarrett.
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[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

The full (open access) pdf for Essays on Longtermism is now available here, in case you are champing at the bit to read Part IV! https://t.co/UUixOlYaxB

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

Very pleased that our volume, Essays on Longtermism, is now out! (Currently dealing with a glitch on the website where the six chapters in part IV are missing from the online version, but this should be fixed soon.)

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

@tyler_m_john @toby_tremlett @willmacaskill @DavidThorstad @evavivalt Good news! I just found out the full pdf of the volume is now available (open access), and it includes the papers from part IV: https://t.co/UUixOlYaxB

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

@tyler_m_john @DavidThorstad It's a glitch--OUP promises they are working on it!

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

Very pleased that our volume, Essays on Longtermism, is now out! (Currently dealing with a glitch on the website where the six chapters in part IV are missing from the online version, but this should be fixed soon.)

[David Thorstad @DavidThorstad]

Today's the day! Essays on longtermism is now out (open access) with Oxford University Press. https://t.co/km4n6ICthR

[David Thorstad @DavidThorstad]

Today's the day! Essays on longtermism is now out (open access) with Oxford University Press. https://t.co/km4n6ICthR

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

@RYChappell Thank you, Richard! Team beneficence

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

https://t.co/gki7ICFbrV

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

new paper out (open access) in PPR! I challenge the common view that justice is the first virtue of social institutions, arguing that political discussions focus too much on justice and should pay more attention to beneficence

[William MacAskill @willmacaskill]

The Global Priorities Institute has now shut its doors.

For an overview of what it achieved, see:

https://t.co/TRDahWTtM9

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

@kvallier no, Kevin! hold the line!

[Jacob Barrett @JacobAriBarrett]

It’s not the em-dash—it’s this sentence structure.