Welcome to CRS’s library of books. Most of the books released by CRS researchers are freely available in a variety of formats, including eBook, paperback and audiobook.
Choose a book below to find out more information and to access it in your choice of format:
Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe
Tobias Baumann
In this book, Tobias Baumann lays out the concept of risks of future suffering (s-risks), and argues that we have strong reasons to consider their reduction a top priority.
Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World
Magnus Vinding
Compassionate Purpose bridges self-help and ethics with a framework for personal development in service of a larger goal: reducing extreme suffering.
Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
Magnus Vinding
In Suffering-Focused Ethics, Magnus Vinding argues that the reduction of suffering deserves special priority, and explores how we can best reduce suffering in practice.
Reasoned Politics
Magnus Vinding
In Reasoned Politics, Magnus Vinding outlines a path toward better politics, and investigates which policies seem most helpful for alleviating severe suffering.
Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?
Magnus Vinding
Part introduction to, part reflective examination of, the idea and ideal of effective altruism. This book aims to examine the core question of effective altruism: How can we best help others?
Minimalist Axiologies: Alternatives to ‘Good Minus Bad’ Views of Value
Teo Ajantaival
In this collection of six essays, Teo Ajantaival explores how we can have reasonable and nuanced views of positive value, wellbeing, and lives worth living — all without the assumption of intrinsic positive value.
Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics
Magnus Vinding
A collection of 34 essays that explore various questions related to the reduction of suffering. Taken together, these essays make the case for a principled yet nuanced approach to the prevention of extreme suffering.
