🧩 Philosophy Oct 5, 2025

David Edmonds on Peter Singer's Shallow Pond Thought Experiment

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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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