David Edmonds on Peter Singer's Shallow Pond Thought Experiment

Oct 5, 2025
19 mins

Episode Description

In this interview of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton interviews David Edmonds about Peter Singer's famous thought experient about what you would do if you saw a child at risk of drowning in a shallow pond, and what the moral implications of that. David has recently published a book about this thought experiment called Death in a Shallow Pond.

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