David Edmonds: Death in a Shallow Pond

Would you save a drowning child at the risk of ruining expensive new shoes or being late for an important meeting? That was the question that the philosopher Peter Singer asked in 1972, eventually leading to the Effective Altruism movement. David Edmonds looks at the remarkable story of Singer and his controversial idea and how it changed the way people think about poverty.

David Edmonds is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, and co-host of the "Philosophy Bites" podcast.