About David Edmonds on Peter Singer
Renowned philosopher and podcaster David Edmonds’ new book explores Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment – and how it changed the way people think about charitable giving. Death in a Shallow Pond describes the experiences and world events that led Singer to make his radical case, and the powerful responses it provoked. The book – and this session – asks important questions about why we give philanthropically, at a personal, society and international level.
David Edmonds will be in conversation with BBC travel presenter and award-winning journalist Rajan Datar.
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About the speakers
David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Institute and a former BBC journalist. His critically acclaimed philosophy books include (with John Eidinow) Wittgenstein’s Poker (enthusiastically promoted by Bill Clinton) and more recently, Parfit: A Philosopher and his Mission to Save Morality. He is currently the philosophy columnist on the New Statesman. He also co-hosts (with Nigel Warburton) Philosophy Bites which has had around 50 million downloads. He was once in the Guinness Book of Records for his part in the creation of the world’s largest Jaffa Cake. Annoyingly, this record has since been surpassed.
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