KCRW The philosophy of giving {Audio} We also talk to a man who gave up his house to a homeless family for a year (and the homeless woman that lived there), and to a philosophy professor about the impulse to give.
Discovery News Giving Speechless People a Unique Voice Perhaps the two most famous speechless individuals are physicist Stephen Hawking and the late Robert Ebert, a film critic. To communicate with other individuals, both men used computers that generated synthesized voices, which sounded tinny, stilted and unnatural. Now new technology could give speechless people a natural voice as unique to them as voices are […]
TechCrunch The nonprofits accelerating Sam Altman’s AI vision “When donors give, and then benefit from their donations, arguably they are not promoting the public good, but rather their own good,” says Patricia Illingworth, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University and author of Giving Now, a book about the ethics of philanthropy.
In Big-Dollar Philanthropy, (Your Name Here) vs. Anonymity The philosopher Patricia Illingworth, the editor of “Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy,” said that “public giving is more desirable in many ways, because it really creates this culture of giving.” Only because it was public, Ms. Illingworth noted, did Bill Gates’s and Warren Buffett’s “giving pledge” inspire dozens of other extremely wealthy peers to pledge half their […]