Entertaining, even riveting. Edmonds is a lucid and engaging explicator of knotty philosophical tangles, and he brings the milieu he treats to life ... The second half, however, is more of a slog. It presents a fusillade of common arguments against EA, along with a counter-fusillade of plausible responses ... As we wade deeper into the scholarly weeds, Death in a Shallow Pond becomes increasingly difficult to place.
Offers balanced assessments of the philosopher ... Does a good job of explaining why the shallow pond cannot simply be dismissed ... The shallow pond, being an artificial, one-off incident, cannot tell us anything about the moral obligations of actual human beings ... Rather than quibbling with the thought experiment, this last objection rejects its central premiss: that more moral goodness is always better.
