Philosophers Who Have Pledged


Philosophers who have pledged to give at least 1% of their annual income to effective charities, either on this site or at Giving What We Can:


Australian National University
Name Position Giving Charities
Christian Barry Faculty member 5% or more Oxfam GB and others


Centenary College of Louisiana
Name Position Giving Charities
Chris Ciocchetti Faculty member 1% or more


Colgate University
Name Position Giving Charities
Ben Lennertz Faculty member 3% or more


Colorado State University
Name Position Giving Charities
Matt MacKenzie Faculty member 1% or more GiveWell


Georgetown University
Name Position Giving Charities
Peter Martin Jaworski Faculty member 1% or more Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly


Harvard University
Name Position Giving Charities
Nir Eyal Faculty member 10% or more


Indiana University
Name Position Giving Charities
Paul Kelly Graduate student 1% or more


London School of Economics
Name Position Giving Charities
Alex Voorhoeve Faculty member 10% or more


National University of Ireland Galway
Name Position Giving Charities
John Danaher Faculty member 1% or more Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative


National University of Singapore
Name Position Giving Charities
Neil Sinhababu Faculty member 10% or more Deworm the World Initiative, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative


Northwestern University
Name Position Giving Charities
Joshua Kissel Graduate student 10% or more Animal Charity Evaluators


The Ohio State University
Name Position Giving Charities
Tim Schroeder Faculty member 10% or more


Princeton University
Name Position Giving Charities
Peter Singer Faculty member 10% or more


Rutgers University
Name Position Giving Charities
Ben Bronner Graduate student 10% or more GiveWell
Carolina Flores Graduate student 10% or more Against Malaria Foundation, The Humane League
Tyler M. John Graduate student 10% or more Sentience Politics
Eli Shupe Graduate student 10% or more GiveWell, Animal Charity Evaluators
Philip Swenson 10% or more


Stanford University
Name Position Giving Charities
Eitan Fischer Graduate student 10% or more


University of California, San Diego
Name Position Giving Charities
Andy Lamey Faculty member 1% or more Oxfam


University of Cambridge
Name Position Giving Charities
Will MacAskill Faculty member 10% or more


University of Colorado, Boulder
Name Position Giving Charities
Paul Bowman Graduate student 1% or more GiveDirectly


University of Hamburg
Name Position Giving Charities
Jens Oliver Meiert Graduate student 1% or more Deutsches Rotes Kreuz


University of Indianapolis
Name Position Giving Charities
Alida Liberman Faculty member 5% or more


University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Name Position Giving Charities
Barry Maguire Faculty member 10% or more GiveWell, Against Malaria Foundation, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative


University of Notre Dame
Name Position Giving Charities
Caleb Ontiveros Graduate student 10% or more


University of Oxford
Name Position Giving Charities
Toby Ord Faculty member 10% or more
Derek Parfit Faculty member 10% or more
Janet Radcliffe-Richards Faculty member 10% or more


University of Puget Sound
Name Position Giving Charities
Shen-yi Liao Faculty member 5% or more Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Deworm the World Initiative


University of Richmond
Name Position Giving Charities
Jessica Flanigan Faculty member 10% or more Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly
Javier Hidalgo Faculty member 10% or more GiveWell, Against Malaria Foundation


University of Southampton
Name Position Giving Charities
Dr. Alex Gregory Faculty member 1% or more Against Malaria Foundation, Cool Earth


University of Southern California
Name Position Giving Charities
Mike Ashfield Graduate student 1% or more Mercy for Animals, Oxfam
Justin Dallmann Graduate student 1% or more GiveWell
Alexander Dietz Graduate student 10% or more GiveWell, The Humane League, Animal Charity Evaluators
Nathan Howard Graduate student 1% or more Against Malaria Foundation
Nicholas Laskowski Graduate student 1% or more  
Christa Peterson Graduate student 1% or more
Abelard Podgorski Graduate student 1% or more GiveWell
Jonathan Wright Graduate student 2% or more GiveWell


University of St Andrews
Name Position Giving Charities
Derek Ball Faculty member 10% or more
Theron Pummer Faculty member 10% or more Giving What We Can


University of York
Name Position Giving Charities
Richard Yetter Chappell Faculty member 10% or more
 GiveWell, Giving What We Can
Andrew Haggerstone Graduate student 1% or more
 Against Malaria Foundation


Victoria University of Wellington
Name Position Giving Charities
Nicholas Drake Graduate student 10% or more
 Giving What We Can


Washington University in St. Louis
Name Position Giving Charities
Tyler Paytas Graduate student 1% or more Against Malaria Foundation