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Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
Jun 5, 2024 · Peter Singer is an Australian ethical and political philosopher best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)
Organ Donation Can Save Donors’ Lives, Too. In my latest piece on Project Syndicate, I discuss the story of Jeff Ewers, who overcame his own past wrongs and, by donating a part of his liver, saved a child's life.
Dec 12, 2023 · One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization [2016] The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically [2015] The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics (2014, with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek) Practical Ethics, 3rd Edition (2011)
I have written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason) and The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek).
Peter Singer may be, as The New Yorker calls him, the planet’s “most influential living philosopher." His groundbreaking 1975 book, Animal Liberation , questioned society’s tendency to put human needs above those of members of other species and helped trigger the modern animal rights movement.
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Why do we prioritize human rights over those of other species? Philosopher Peter Singer dives into what he calls "speciesism," the root of the widely ignored mistreatment of animals around the world, from factory farms to product-testing facilities.
Peter Singer. Singer was born in 1946, Melbourne, Australia, to an Austrian Jewish family that emigrated from Austria to escape persecution by the Nazis. He studied law, history and philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and majored in philosophy.
If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others. But, asks philosopher Peter Singer, what's the most effective way to give? He talks through some surprising thought experiments to help you balance emotion and practicality -- and make the biggest impact with whatever you can share.
