TY - JOUR
T1 - Against shallow ponds
T2 - An argument against Singer's approach to global poverty
AU - Wisor, S.
PY - 2011/4/1
Y1 - 2011/4/1
N2 - For 40 years, Peter Singer has deployed the case of the child drowning in the shallow pond to argue for greater donations in foreign aid. The persistent use of the shallow pond example in theorizing about global poverty ignores morally salient features of the real world, and ignoring such morally salient features can have a variety of harmful implications for anti-poverty work. I argue that the shallow pond example should be abandoned, and defend this claim against possible objections.
AB - For 40 years, Peter Singer has deployed the case of the child drowning in the shallow pond to argue for greater donations in foreign aid. The persistent use of the shallow pond example in theorizing about global poverty ignores morally salient features of the real world, and ignoring such morally salient features can have a variety of harmful implications for anti-poverty work. I argue that the shallow pond example should be abandoned, and defend this claim against possible objections.
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U2 - 10.1080/17449626.2010.548819
DO - 10.1080/17449626.2010.548819
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79957719562
SN - 1744-9626
VL - 7
SP - 19
EP - 32
JO - Journal of Global Ethics
JF - Journal of Global Ethics
IS - 1
ER -