Theron Pummer is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He works on issues in ethics and metaphysics and has published on topics related to effective altruism, obligation, and rescue. His first book The Rules of Rescue: Cost, Distance, and Effective Altruism (Oxford University Press, 2023) addresses questions surrounding the ethics […]
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