David Edmonds

Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds

David Edmonds

Next week, 8 Mar at 11:00 am GMT, see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, at @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk! He'll discuss Peter Singer’s "drowning child" thought experiment and how it reshaped debates on global poverty.

This is a free, in-person event: buff.ly/5v3kZzk

If you’re in Oxford this weekend, don’t miss this free event in the Philosophy in the Bookshop series I run @blackwelloxford.bsky.social

Finishing reading @davidedmonds100.bsky.social ‘s excellent book on the Vienna Circle:
“At some stage two FBI men visited him at his home. To show that he was no Russian spy, [Philipp] Frank went to his bookshelf, took out a copy of Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism,

Social policy

Otto Neurath should be much better known. "May I say one word about phraseology...please do not speak of ‘experiment’, it is the very life of people at stake...and using some people as experimental material for other people is against my feelings. Let us call it a social venture. That is better."

Indeed. I’m planning to revisit this!

The latest Social Science Bites - on Indian democracy with LSE anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Science of Evil How the Holocaust created a new field of science - social psychology

On Holocaust Memorial Day: how attempts to understand the Holocaust created social psychology www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Should museums return artefacts to where they came from? My Oxford colleagues have been working on a moral decision aid for cultural institutions. Link here darca.uehiro.ox.ac.uk

“For heaven’s sake, a logician should not be asked to write a history or an autobiography, unless he is a genius like Russell.” Fair point Carnap, fair point..

We’ll explain it in time

35 years later and still not explained

Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds

David Edmonds

Tomorrow (21 Jan) at 7:00pm GMT, Stony Words hosts @davidedmonds100.bsky.social for a book talk on Death in a Shallow Pond! Hear about the fascinating history of Effective Altruism from it's inceptive thought experiment and how it changed the way we understand poverty.

Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS

#464 - Thought Experiments, Morals, and Effective Altruism: A Dialogue with David Edmonds Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with David Edmonds about thought experiments and effective altruism.

Listen: @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, speaks with @xavierbonilla.bsky.social for Converging Dialogues about the importance of thought experiments, philosopher Peter Singer, the effective altruism movement, and more:

"I just think that I’m not a morally exemplary person." G.A. Cohen. One from the Philosophy Bites archive philosophybites.com/podcast/g-a-...

Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds

David Edmonds

Next week, 21 Jan at 7:00pm GMT, Stony Words hosts @davidedmonds100.bsky.social for a book talk on Death in a Shallow Pond! Hear about the fascinating history of Effective Altruism from it's inceptive thought experiment and how it changed the way we understand poverty.

Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS

It’s not ‘fantasy’: I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality – because I was one of them | Rickard Berg I remember him as a racist bully, and his allegation that other ex-Dulwich boys and I are liars tells me he hasn’t changed, says former Dulwich college pupil Rickard Berg

Farage is about the only one in our year who doesn’t recall him being a racist and fascist. I’m worried about his memory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That’s hilarious!

What is the German word for going to the library to look up a book that you subsequently discover you already own?

Portland Trail Blazers 111-105 Houston Rockets: Kevin Durant passes Wilt Chamberlain on all-time NBA list Kevin Durant moves past the great Wilt Chamberlain and into seventh on the NBA all-time scoring list during the Houston Rockets' defeat by the Portland Trail Blazers.

I think 25 cents of every ticket sold in games in which he features should go directly into Kevin Durant's bank account www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basket... (niche joke)

thanks for that balanced review Matt! I think I do make it clear that there are a range of views from development economists, and that Angus is a bit of an outlier. The motivational critique is about whether the messaging is effective...

Perhaps she should instead have given the cash contents to charity. I wasn’t home but If I track her down I’ll give her a copy of the book! (Plus something she might appreciate more like chocolates!)

Turns out he’s not 100% honest

Agreed. It gets a bad rap

I wasn't home, but I think she walked!

astonishing!!! I wasn't in, so need to contact her to thank her...

Left wallet + credit cards on London bus this morning, and didn’t even know it was missing. The bus driver has just dropped it off at my house! I thought this sort of thing only happened in the movies. Thank you bus driver Dorota... @tflbot.bsky.social

This is what I told Farage’s biographer quite a few years ago. Now corroborated by more than 30 others

‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34 Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries say Reform leader often used antisemitic language and racial epithets

According to Farage all 34 of us are lying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The latest Social Science Bites, with psychologist @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social, It's on empathy and AI. Such a privilege to chat to all these leading social scientists.