William MacAskill

William MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher and ethicist. “What We Owe the Future” explores whether people today have moral responsibilities to generations who may live far in the future.

Books by William MacAskill

What We Owe the Future

William MacAskill

What We Owe the Future asks whether people today have moral responsibilities to generations who may live far beyond us. William MacAskill argues that the future’s scale and vulnerability make present choices consequential, then examines how values, catastrophe, stagnation, population ethics, and wellbeing shape what we should do.

10 chapters