Toby Ord
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| Born | Toby David Godfrey Ord July 1979 (age 45) Melbourne, Australia |
| Spouse | Bernadette Young |
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| Thesis | Beyond Action: Applying Consequentialism to Decision Making and Motivation (2009) |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| School | Western philosophy |
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| Website | www |
Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) 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.
He was a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, where his work focused on existential risk. His book on the subject, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, was published in March 2020.