From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein鈥檚 Poker, a fascinating account of Peter Singer鈥檚 controversial 鈥渄rowning child鈥� thought experiment鈥攁nd how it changed the way people think about charitable giving
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein鈥檚 Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history
Death in a Shallow Pond From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein鈥檚 Poker, Death in a Shallow Pond is a fascinating account of Peter Singer鈥檚 controversial 鈥渄rowning child鈥� thought experiment鈥攁nd how it changed the way people think about charitable giving.Read More
The drowning child There are hundreds of thought experiments in philosophy, but not many have any influence beyond the discipline. Peter Singer鈥檚 drowning child thought experiment is a rare exception.Read More
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality Derek Parfit (1942鈥�2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual.Read More
David Edmonds on Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save MoralityDerek Parfit was an obsessive. For much of his adult life he had two obsessions. Philosophy was one, photography another. Every year, for many years, he would travel to Venice and St. Petersburg and photograph the same buildings, trying to take the p...Read More
