#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil

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So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. I am here with David Edmonds. David, thanks for joining me again. Thanks for having me back. So, David, you have a new book which I I really enjoyed.

It's titled Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need. And uh you've written a kind of a short bio of uh the philosopher Peter Singer, who's also been on the podcast several times, and of the effective altruism movement that he has spawned, along with uh Will McCaskill and Toby Ord, who've also been on the podcast several times. And but it's also a great history of moral philosophy in the analytic tradition. So I I tr I once just want to track through the book really because it's I I I think the um the virtues of effective altruism as well as its um the concerns surrounding it are are still worth talking about.

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