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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 |
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]