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Podcast: Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson
Episode: 45: Effective Altruism and a Scholarly Inheritance
Description: Peter Mommsen talks with Phil Christman and Joey Keegin about effective altruism.Then, Peter and Susannah welcome Dhananjay Jagannathan to discuss his piece “What Is Our Scholarly Inheritance?” Both past and future, Dhananjay argues, make us who we are, and in scholarship as in other human cultural pursuits, we step into a world, receiving an inheritance and becoming responsible for enriching and passing on that inheritance. Though this kind of generational relationship is not biological, it is very deeply human, and the chosen and unchosen aspects of non-biological generational obligations are what make up a civilization.Hi...