David Edmonds on Peter Singer's Shallow Pond Thought Experiment
From Philosophy Bites by Edmonds and Warburton
October 5, 2025 · 19 min
About this episode
David Edmonds discusses Peter Singer's shallow pond thought experiment and its moral implications.
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 .
People in this episode
Host: Nigel Warburton
Guest: David Edmonds
Topics covered
- moral philosophy
- thought experiments
- ethics
- drowning child scenario
- Peter Singer
Keywords
- thought experiment
- moral implications
- drowning child
- Peter Singer
- ethics
- Philosophy Bites
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Death in a Shallow Pond
More episodes of Philosophy Bites
- Chike Jeffers on Douglass and Du Bois · April 20, 2026 · 27 min
- Alexander Guerrero on Lottocracy · March 24, 2026 · 16 min
- Tarun Khaitan on Decolonising Institutions · February 26, 2026 · 22 min
- Janet Radcliffe Richards on What is Philosophy? · January 24, 2026 · 15 min
- Chike Jeffers on Africana Philosophy · January 1, 2026 · 16 min
- Angie Hobbs on Plato on Power · December 11, 2025 · 24 min
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Philosophy Bites podcast page.