David Edmonds
@davidedmonds100.bsky.social
Philosopher (Uehiro Oxford), Author (Wittgenstein's Poker, Would You Kill The Fat Man, Parfit, etc.), Podcaster (Philosophy Bites, Social Science Bites). Journalist. Latest book, Death In A Shallow Pond.
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On Holocaust Memorial Day: how attempts to understand the Holocaust created social psychology www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Science of Evil
How the Holocaust created a new field of science - social psychology
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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
DARCA
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January 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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..
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 AM
“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..
35 years later and still not explained
January 21, 2026 at 7:43 AM
35 years later and still not explained
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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
Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS
January 20, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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
Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS
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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:
#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.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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-...
G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth - Philosophy Bites
Can differences in income be morally justified? Should we expect rich people to give their money to the poor? G.A. Cohen, author of a book with the provocative title If You're An Egalitarian, How Come...
philosophybites.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
"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-...
Reposted by 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
Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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
Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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...
What is the German word for going to the library to look up a book that you subsequently discover you already own?
January 10, 2026 at 12:18 PM
What is the German word for going to the library to look up a book that you subsequently discover you already own?
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)
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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)
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
January 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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
January 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
This is what I told Farage’s biographer quite a few years ago. Now corroborated by more than 30 others
According to Farage all 34 of us are lying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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.
“Empathy is sort of vulnerable to all the biases you would think about.”
University of Toronto psychology professor, @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social discusses empathy on a new episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.
Listen here or read the transcript: www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/01/paul...
University of Toronto psychology professor, @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social discusses empathy on a new episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.
Listen here or read the transcript: www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/01/paul...
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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.
Post Anschluss the Nazis forced Jews to list their assets. Here are the Wittgenstein musical instruments from the house in the Argentinierstrasse Palais
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Post Anschluss the Nazis forced Jews to list their assets. Here are the Wittgenstein musical instruments from the house in the Argentinierstrasse Palais
Africana philosophy. The latest Philosophy Bites. Only 7.5 minutes if you play at double speed!
My podcast co-author Chike Jeffers (@chikej.bsky.social) is on the latest Philosophy Bites podcast, talking with @davidedmonds100.bsky.social about the subject it took HopWag 140+ episodes to cover. This time it takes just 15 minutes!
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#philosophy #philsky
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#philosophy #philsky
Chike Jeffers on Africana Philosophy - Philosophy Bites
David Edmonds talks to Chike Jeffers of Dalhousie Universtity about Afrikana Philosophy. This episode was supported by the Ideas Workshop, part of the Open Society Foundations.
philosophybites.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Africana philosophy. The latest Philosophy Bites. Only 7.5 minutes if you play at double speed!
The Kinder of the Kinder have produced another philosophy book. Well done @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social It's very good.
Bit of personal trivia. Anthony Gottleib, @davidedmonds100.bsky.social and me are all sons of fathers who came to the UK as children on the Kindertransport fleeing from the Nazis, and we all write about philosophy in ways that try to reach a broader public.
My @thetls.bsky.social review of Anthony Gottlieb’s new biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein (behind a paywall) www.the-tls.com/philosophy/h...
December 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Kinder of the Kinder have produced another philosophy book. Well done @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social It's very good.
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We’re thrilled to share that seven PUP titles earned a spot on @newyorker.com's Best Books of the Year list! 🎉
Learn more about these featured titles: press.princeton.edu/books?search...
Learn more about these featured titles: press.princeton.edu/books?search...
December 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We’re thrilled to share that seven PUP titles earned a spot on @newyorker.com's Best Books of the Year list! 🎉
Learn more about these featured titles: press.princeton.edu/books?search...
Learn more about these featured titles: press.princeton.edu/books?search...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage demands apology from Kemi Badenoch www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
P.Kyle www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
MPs www.gbnews.com/politics/nig...
from the BBC www.lbc.co.uk/article/fara...
I join with others in demanding an apology from Farage
Farage demands apology from Kemi Badenoch www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
P.Kyle www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
MPs www.gbnews.com/politics/nig...
from the BBC www.lbc.co.uk/article/fara...
I join with others in demanding an apology from Farage
Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries
Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegations
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage demands apology from Kemi Badenoch www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
P.Kyle www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
MPs www.gbnews.com/politics/nig...
from the BBC www.lbc.co.uk/article/fara...
I join with others in demanding an apology from Farage
Farage demands apology from Kemi Badenoch www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
P.Kyle www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
MPs www.gbnews.com/politics/nig...
from the BBC www.lbc.co.uk/article/fara...
I join with others in demanding an apology from Farage
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The New Yorker has (rightly!) listed Death in a Shallow Pond - the subject of my discussion with @davidedmonds100.bsky.social on the latest Ethics Untangled episode - as one of the best books of 2025. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
The Best Books of 2025
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
www.newyorker.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The New Yorker has (rightly!) listed Death in a Shallow Pond - the subject of my discussion with @davidedmonds100.bsky.social on the latest Ethics Untangled episode - as one of the best books of 2025. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
Shallow Pond is on Ethics Untangled. Thanks to Jim Baxter and the Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds @princetonupress.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...
51. What can a shallow pond teach us about ethics? With David Edmonds - Ethics Untangled
Imagine this: You’re walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You’re the only ...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shallow Pond is on Ethics Untangled. Thanks to Jim Baxter and the Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds @princetonupress.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...
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I was at school with Nigel Farage, this is what I heard
I was at school with Nigel Farage, this is what I heard
Ever since Farage has been in the public eye I’ve been telling whoever would listen about his past
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December 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I was at school with Nigel Farage, this is what I heard
Nigel Farage called it the Belsen Bus. 31 contemporaries have now corroborated stories about his deep bigotry. Richard Tice thinks we're all lying observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Nigel Farage called it the Belsen Bus. 31 contemporaries have now corroborated stories about his deep bigotry. Richard Tice thinks we're all lying observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Death in a Shallow Pond author @davidedmonds100.bsky.social spoke with Sam Harris for Making Sense with Sam Harris about thought experiments, Effective Altruism, Derek Parfit’s influence on contemporary ethics, and more:
The Philosophy of Good and Evil (Making Sense Ep. 448)
Would You Ruin Your Shoes to Save a Child?
samharris.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Death in a Shallow Pond author @davidedmonds100.bsky.social spoke with Sam Harris for Making Sense with Sam Harris about thought experiments, Effective Altruism, Derek Parfit’s influence on contemporary ethics, and more: