Introduction

Will McCaskill is the youngest tenured professor of philosophy in the world at the age of 32. He's one of the founders of the Effective Altruism Movement. His nonprofits have collectively raised over 1.13 billion pounds in lifetime-pleged donations. Is charity a personal matter where we select the causes that we feel most attached to and leave it at that? Or do we have a moral obligation above and beyond that to try and do the most good we can wherever that good happens to be?