Beyond Shallow Pond | David Schmidtz | Advanced
Peter Singer once proposed a seemingly obvious moral truism that, “If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.” The intuitive motivation that Singer offers in support has become one of philosophy’s most famous intuition pumps. We now refer to the case as Shallow Pond. Read more below.
