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.
Pinned
25 yrs ago, with co-author John, we did a lot of research for Wittgenstein’s Poker on the costly deal with the Nazis (for 2 sisters to be classified Aryan). John has just found the files. A treasure trove. This is the US lawyer’s letter to Ludwig -exposing splits in the Wittgenstein family
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
25 yrs ago, with co-author John, we did a lot of research for Wittgenstein’s Poker on the costly deal with the Nazis (for 2 sisters to be classified Aryan). John has just found the files. A treasure trove. This is the US lawyer’s letter to Ludwig -exposing splits in the Wittgenstein family
This is not true. He had not ‘just entered his teens’. He was racially abusing kids right through to the end of his school years - aged 18.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is not true. He had not ‘just entered his teens’. He was racially abusing kids right through to the end of his school years - aged 18.
Did Michael Prescott himself selectively edit Trump's speech? ep.ft.com/permalink/em...
Good morning. Stephen here. FT Alphaville’s Toby Nangle has very kindly offered to do today’s newsletter on the memo that plunged the BBC into crisis.
ep.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Did Michael Prescott himself selectively edit Trump's speech? ep.ft.com/permalink/em...
Reposted by David Edmonds
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
Reposted by David Edmonds
The Philosophy Bites team was in action over the weekend @blackwelloxford.bsky.social discussing @davidedmonds100.bsky.social ‘s new @princetonupress.bsky.social book Death in a Shallow pond - signed copies are available from the shop (if you hurry)
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Philosophy Bites team was in action over the weekend @blackwelloxford.bsky.social discussing @davidedmonds100.bsky.social ‘s new @princetonupress.bsky.social book Death in a Shallow pond - signed copies are available from the shop (if you hurry)
Plus Leibniz and Nietzsche
Epstein's book buying. Including the Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Epstein’s Emails Reveal Book Purchases About Trump, Sex, Money and Power
The disgraced financier purchased books about making money, treating narcissism, negotiating with anyone, achieving ecstasy and understanding life
www.bloomberg.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Plus Leibniz and Nietzsche
Epstein's book buying. Including the Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Epstein’s Emails Reveal Book Purchases About Trump, Sex, Money and Power
The disgraced financier purchased books about making money, treating narcissism, negotiating with anyone, achieving ecstasy and understanding life
www.bloomberg.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Epstein's book buying. Including the Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Moral Thought Experiments, the Shallow Pond and Worcester College Oxford www.templeton.org/news/moral-t...
Moral Thought Experiments and the Shallow Pond
You are walking past a shallow pond when you see a child struggling in the water. There is no one else around—no parent or guardian. You are about to wade in to save the child, when you notice that yo...
www.templeton.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Moral Thought Experiments, the Shallow Pond and Worcester College Oxford www.templeton.org/news/moral-t...
An interview in the New Republic
For @newrepublic.com, @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, spoke with Kate Mabus about the effective altruism movement and his new book:
What Happened to Effective Altruism?
A new book recovers the origins of a movement recently championed by Sam Bankman-Fried.
newrepublic.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
An interview in the New Republic
Free event Saturday, in Oxford, 11am with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with David Edmonds
Philosophy and co-host of Philosophy Bites, David Edmonds joins Nigel Warburton to discuss his new book 'Death in a Shallow Pond'
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Free event Saturday, in Oxford, 11am with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Reposted by David Edmonds
Can one child’s life really outweigh another’s? @davidedmonds100.bsky.social’s Death in a Shallow Pond asks the big moral questions and Julian Baggini’s review in @litreview.bsky.social makes them impossible to ignore. Read it here:
Julian Baggini - Ethics of Indifference
Julian Baggini: Ethics of Indifference - Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds
literaryreview.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Can one child’s life really outweigh another’s? @davidedmonds100.bsky.social’s Death in a Shallow Pond asks the big moral questions and Julian Baggini’s review in @litreview.bsky.social makes them impossible to ignore. Read it here:
Fascinating new Philosophy Bites with @edouardmachery.bsky.social on demographic variation in response to thought experiments philosophybites.com/podcast/edou...
Edouard Machery on Variations in Responses to Thought Experiments - Philosophy Bites
Philosophers who use thought experiments often believe their own intutions in response to them are unviersal. But that's not always so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Edouard Machery ...
philosophybites.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Fascinating new Philosophy Bites with @edouardmachery.bsky.social on demographic variation in response to thought experiments philosophybites.com/podcast/edou...
The latest Social Science Bites is on innate causal thinking www.socialsciencespace.com/about-social...
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The latest Social Science Bites is on innate causal thinking www.socialsciencespace.com/about-social...
When people complain about how parochial the news is it’s because they choose to follow parochial news. There is an alternative
I do recommend the BBC World Service in the morning. You get to hear about things that are just absent from regular UK news coverage, such as the post-(fixed) elections in Tanzania and the serious violence there atm, with demonstrators shot in large numbers
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
When people complain about how parochial the news is it’s because they choose to follow parochial news. There is an alternative
tomorrow, in Brighton
Tomorrow (4 Nov) at 7:30 pm GMT, attend @brighthink.bsky.social In Conversation to see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social discuss his book, Death in a Shallow Pond, and the birth of effective altruism from Peter Singer's thought experiment.
Get tickets for this in-person event here: hubs.ly/Q03QkzVd0
Get tickets for this in-person event here: hubs.ly/Q03QkzVd0
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
tomorrow, in Brighton
Philosophy, "a field infamous for an intellectual aggression so intense that reducing an interlocutor to tears was long considered a mark of successful debate."
(in New Yorker article about Laurie Paul)
(in New Yorker article about Laurie Paul)
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Philosophy, "a field infamous for an intellectual aggression so intense that reducing an interlocutor to tears was long considered a mark of successful debate."
(in New Yorker article about Laurie Paul)
(in New Yorker article about Laurie Paul)
Brighton next week
What if saving a life was as simple as wading into a shallow pond?
Join philosopher David Edmonds as he uncovers how one radical idea sparked the movement of effective altruism and changed how we think about doing good.
Link in comments!
@davidedmonds100.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
Join philosopher David Edmonds as he uncovers how one radical idea sparked the movement of effective altruism and changed how we think about doing good.
Link in comments!
@davidedmonds100.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Brighton next week
Bristol
Tomorrow (29 Oct) at 7:15 pm GMT, head to St. George's Bristol for a philosophy salon, where @davidedmonds100.bsky.social will be in conversation with Bridget Anderson on his book, Death in a Shallow Pond, and what our duties are to those in need at home and abroad.
Book tickets: buff.ly/0ItyUIz
Book tickets: buff.ly/0ItyUIz
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Bristol
Brighton
Next week, on 4 Nov at 7:30 pm GMT, attend @brighthink.bsky.social In Conversation to see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social discuss his book, Death in a Shallow Pond, and the birth of effective altruism from Peter Singer's thought experiment.
Get tickets for this in-person event here: hubs.ly/Q03QkzVd0
Get tickets for this in-person event here: hubs.ly/Q03QkzVd0
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Brighton
Pleased to have made it on to this. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
What We’re Reading
Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
www.newyorker.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Pleased to have made it on to this. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
Reposted by David Edmonds
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
Reposted by David Edmonds
Next week, 29 Oct at 7:15 pm GMT, head to St. George's Bristol for a philosophy salon, where @davidedmonds100.bsky.social will be in conversation with Bridget Anderson on his book, Death in a Shallow Pond, and what our duties are to those in need at home and abroad.
Book tickets: buff.ly/0ItyUIz
Book tickets: buff.ly/0ItyUIz
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Next week, 29 Oct at 7:15 pm GMT, head to St. George's Bristol for a philosophy salon, where @davidedmonds100.bsky.social will be in conversation with Bridget Anderson on his book, Death in a Shallow Pond, and what our duties are to those in need at home and abroad.
Book tickets: buff.ly/0ItyUIz
Book tickets: buff.ly/0ItyUIz
Review in the New Yorker
In Death in a Shallow Pond, @davidedmonds100.bsky.social "transforms moral inquiry into a high-stakes adventure,” writes @newyorker.com. Check out the Briefly Noted listing:
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short reviews of recent releases.
www.newyorker.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Review in the New Yorker
Reposted by David Edmonds
The first chapter of my new short biography of Wittgenstein is free to read at Lit Hub: lithub.com/on-the-simpl...
On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”
In 1931, at the age of forty-one, Ludwig Wittgenstein mused in his diary that perhaps his name would live on only as the end point of Western philosophy—“like the name of the one who burnt down the…
lithub.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The first chapter of my new short biography of Wittgenstein is free to read at Lit Hub: lithub.com/on-the-simpl...
