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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We’re thrilled to share that seven PUP titles earned a spot on @newyorker.com's Best Books of the Year list! 🎉
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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
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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:
Watered down a bit by the lawyers -but felt it had to be said. www.newstatesman.com
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December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Watered down a bit by the lawyers -but felt it had to be said. www.newstatesman.com
What's It Like To Be A Bot? Wrote article about AI, consciousness & famous thought experiments. Thanks to @tomrachman.bsky.social for commissioning open.substack.com/pub/aipolicyperspectives/p/whats-it-like-to-be-a-bot?r=7egfi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
What’s It Like To Be A Bot?
How philosophers dream of conscious machines
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December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What's It Like To Be A Bot? Wrote article about AI, consciousness & famous thought experiments. Thanks to @tomrachman.bsky.social for commissioning open.substack.com/pub/aipolicyperspectives/p/whats-it-like-to-be-a-bot?r=7egfi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Thanks @philosophybites.bsky.social I've so far read two of the other four. Schopenhauer by @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social is next
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Every year we ask Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) to select the best new philosophy books. Here's his 2025 selection—including biographies of Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein, and a carefully-curated collection of Existentialist writings.
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Every year we ask Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) to select the best new philosophy books. Here's his 2025 selection—including biographies of Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein, and a carefully-curated collection of Existentialist writings.
fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
The Best Philosophy Books of 2025
The best new philosophy books of 2025, as recommended by our philosophy editor, the author and podcaster Nigel Warburton
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December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thanks @philosophybites.bsky.social I've so far read two of the other four. Schopenhauer by @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social is next
Latest Social Science Bites: Devyani Sharma on accent prejudice www.socialsciencespace.com/about-social...
Social Science Bites - Social Science Space
The Social Science Bites podcast hosts bite-size interviews with leading social scientists. Each episode offers a unique perspective on how our social […]
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December 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Latest Social Science Bites: Devyani Sharma on accent prejudice www.socialsciencespace.com/about-social...
Latest Philosophy Bites. Sam Scheffler on grief philosophybites.com/podcast/samu...
Samuel Scheffler on Grief and Time - Philosophy Bites
Grief is affected by the passage of time in a way that some attitudes and emotions aren't. Samuel Scheffler explores why this might be so in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.
philosophybites.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Latest Philosophy Bites. Sam Scheffler on grief philosophybites.com/podcast/samu...
It's quite a weird experience to have political leaders and hundreds of their supporters deny what you know to be true. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform deputy leader dismisses claims of Farage’s past racism as new witnesses come forward
Richard Tice says testimony by about two dozen people about party leader’s school days is ‘made-up twaddle’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's quite a weird experience to have political leaders and hundreds of their supporters deny what you know to be true. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nagel, on the other hand....
Bernard Williams was a poor writer. Sorry, but fact.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Nagel, on the other hand....
Very pleased to make the New Yorker 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 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Very pleased to make the New Yorker best books of 2025 www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Author alert. Anthropic have settled. (And I can claim for 6 books.) secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Bernard Williams was a poor writer. Sorry, but fact.
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Bernard Williams was a poor writer. Sorry, but fact.
Have had a long and heated debate with friend who insists I should engage in debate when a person makes outrageous/mad and offensive comments….that otherwise these ideas will take root etc. I say certain claims fall outside the arena of rational engagement. Is there a literature on this?
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Have had a long and heated debate with friend who insists I should engage in debate when a person makes outrageous/mad and offensive comments….that otherwise these ideas will take root etc. I say certain claims fall outside the arena of rational engagement. Is there a literature on this?
Q.86 Which philosopher said of All Souls College Oxford that “It’s like living on an island on an island on an island”?
Q.85 Which philosopher wrote a book which was dedicated to ‘the love of morality’.
Q.84 Which philosopher wrote. “Raisins may be the best part of a cake, but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake”?
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Q.86 Which philosopher said of All Souls College Oxford that “It’s like living on an island on an island on an island”?
Q.85 Which philosopher wrote a book which was dedicated to ‘the love of morality’.
Q.84 Which philosopher wrote. “Raisins may be the best part of a cake, but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake”?
Q.83 Which philosopher’s father was the first CIA operative killed in action:
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Q.85 Which philosopher wrote a book which was dedicated to ‘the love of morality’.
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.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Did Michael Prescott himself selectively edit Trump's speech? ep.ft.com/permalink/em...
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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.
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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)