Education
MacAskill was educated at Cambridge, Princeton, and Oxford, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy in 2013.
philosopher Associate Professor of Philosophy
MacAskill was educated at Cambridge, Princeton, and Oxford, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy in 2013.
He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford. MacAskill"s work and his organisations have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, British Broadcasting Corporation News, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4’s The Today Programme, Consumer News and Business Channel, National Public Radio, TED, and other media outlets globally. He is a regular contributor to Quartz, and has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Independent, Time, and The Washington Post.
MacAskill"s argument that young idealists should work for Wall Street has been the subject of a New York Times op-ed by David Brooks.
Brooks argued that, while effective altruists may start earning to give in order to realize their deepest commitments, their values may erode over time, becoming progressively less altruistic. In addition, Brooks objected to the view on which altruists should turn themselves "into a machine for the redistribution of wealth."
In 2014, MacAskill was a notable critic of the ice bucket challenge.