# David Edmonds on Peter Singer's Shallow Pond Thought Experiment

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Published: 2025-10-05T09:36:00+00:00
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## Resource

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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