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Moral Philosopher Will MacAskill on What We Owe The Future

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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What Does a Philosopher Do?

What is a philosopher? And what does it mean to, at the age of 18, to decide you want to be an academic philosopher? Like, what dies that emalicla is o sayou funny when people askme what i do. I don't actually really give lectures. That means i'm sory to find owne and saylik, i'm a philosopher. Ye. What is that it dalt, what does a philosopher do? Well, we've just got, the best we can do is cind of informal reasoning. So just very high quality arguments,. clearly stating your premises, clearly stating hat you than argue for. But what you don't have is pl

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