Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need
by David Edmonds
This is the second of David Edmonds’s books to focus on a thought experiment. The previous one on the trolley problem (insensitively named ‘Would You Kill the Fat Man?’) was a great success. This one looks closely at Peter Singer’s thought experiment about a child drowning in a shallow pond and gets to the heart of debates about the moral limits of charity and the philosophical reasons that are given in support of widening our concern for those in great need in distant lands.
