Leif Wenar

{{Short description|American Philosopher}}

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Leif Wenar is an American philosopher and Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is known for his work on political science.{{cite web |title=Leif Wenar {{!}} Department of Philosophy |url=https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/leif-wenar |website=philosophy.stanford.edu |language=en}} Wenar has an AB in philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in philosophy from Harvard University.{{Cite web |last=Wenar |first=Leif |title=About |url=https://www.wenar.info/about |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Leif Wenar |language=en-US}} From 2008 to 2020 he held the Chair of Philosophy & Law at King’s College London.{{Cite web |last=Wenar |first=Leif |title=Wenar CV |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55abfeaae4b0ba2b92833a23/t/66041f32fb11b2695d1ded5a/1711546162572/WenarCVcurrent.pdf |access-date=May 6, 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Leif Wenar |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/leif-wenar |access-date=May 6, 2025 |website=King’s College London}} In March 2024, he wrote an article for Wired magazine critiquing the effective altruism movement called "The Deaths of Effective Altruism."{{Cite web |last=Schliesser |first=Eric |date=2024-04-05 |title=On Shallow Ponds and Effective Altruism |url=https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/05/on-shallow-ponds-and-effective-altruism/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406012715/https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/05/on-shallow-ponds-and-effective-altruism/ |archive-date=2024-04-06 |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=Crooked Timber}}