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Episode 3: Singer's Drowning Child

If saving someone costs us very little, are we morally required to act? Peter Singer’s “drowning child” thought experiment asks whether distance should make any difference to what we owe others.

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The Greatest Imaginations in the History of Philosophy

  • Episode 1: The Sorites Paradox
  • Episode 2: Is Abortion Really Murder?
  • Episode 3: Singer's Drowning Child
  • Episode 4: the Extended Mind
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