Books written by David Edmonds
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
Weinberg, J., S. Nichols, and S. Stich. 2001. “Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions.” Philosophical Topics 29 (1 and 2): 429–59. Wheatley, T., and J. Haidt. “Hypnotic Disgust Makes Moral Judgments More Severe.
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Los filósofos miran hacia el mundo
Todos los días, los medios de comunicación nos dan cuenta de sorprendentes historias que ocurren a lo largo y ancho del mundo y que plantean complejos dilemas morales.
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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Leonard, R. “Ethics and the Excluded Middle: Karl Menger and Social Science in Interwar Vienna. ... Leonard, R. Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory. ... Monk, R. Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness.
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Caste Wars: A Philosophy of Discrimination
Taylor, P. (1973) 'Reverse discrimination and compensatory justice', Analysis 33: 177–182. ... Zimbardo, P., Haney, C. and Banks, C. (1973) 'Interpersonal dynamics in a simulated prison', International Journal of Criminology and ...
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
Moore then replied to Wittgenstein's reply, entitling his talk “P but I do not believe P.” “Moore's Paradox” addressed such propositions as “Smith left the room but I don't believe it” and “There is a fire in this room and I don't ...
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Rousseau's Dog: A Tale of Two Philosophers
And then it all went horribly wrong. In Rousseau's Dog, David Edmonds and John Eidinow bring their narrative verve to the bitter quarrel that turned these two Enlightenment giants into mortal foes.
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Big Ideas in Social Science
From the people who brought us the 'Philosophy Bites' series, this volume is a fascinating and accessible introduction to the key ideas and findings of the social sciences.
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Philosophy Bites Again
RAE. LANGTON. ON. Hate. Speech. David Edmonds: Should hate speech be outlawed? The use of the 'N word', say? In the US, extensive free speech is said to be guaranteed by the First Amendment, but in Europe there are laws that restrict ...
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the bestselling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with this ethical dilemma, sometimes called the trolley problem.
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Undercover Robot: My First Year As a Human
Watch out, Brussells Academy - this robot will outwit you all!
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Future Morality
Is the future gender-fluid? Should we strive to become post-human? Should we use drugs to improve our intimate relationships — or to reduce crime? Our intuitions about questions like these are often both weak and confused.
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The Oxford Reverse Dictionary
Have a word on the tip of your tongue?
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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to ...
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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Weaving an enthralling narrative set against the backdrop of rising extremism in Hitler's Europe, David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle--associated with billiant thinkers like Otto Neurath, Kurt Gödel, Rudolf Carnap, ...
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Philosophy Bites Back
Presents interviews with leading philosophers who discuss the ideas and works of the most important philosophers throughout history, including Socrates, Wittgenstein, and Derrida.
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Future Morality
Can science predict crime - and prevent it? Is the future gender-fluid? David Edmonds has put together a philosophical task force to get to grips with challenges like these.
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Future Morality
Future Morality
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet chess machine.
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Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
In this book, the first-full scale biography of Parfit, Dave Edmonds tells the story of the thinker that many philosophers consider the most important moral philosopher of the last century.
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Wittgenstein's Poker
On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time.