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Peter Singer
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Peter Singer is an influential Australian philosopher born in 1946 who has written extensively on ethics and how we should live our lives. His work matters because he challenges conventional thinking on issues like animal welfare, poverty, and end-of-life care, making complex moral questions accessible to general audiences.
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- Born
- 6 July 1946
- Works
- 186
Top works
- The Peta guide to animal liberation
- Science, Society, and the Supermarket
- Hegel
- Rethinking life & death
- Rats, patients and people
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Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation…
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- AI & Animals: A documentary — Self2026
- Humans and Other Animals — Lui-même2024
- Great Minds — Self2021
- Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story — Himself2018
- Do You Trust this Computer? — Self2018
- Le Temps des bêtes : un film de cruauté et de compassion — Lui-même2017
- Empathy — Peter Singer2017
- Food ReLOVution — Self2017
- Every Three Seconds2014
- Speciesism: The Movie — Self2013
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Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a secular preference utilitarian perspective. He has served, on two occasions, as chair of philosophy at Monash University, where he foun
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· 2019 · cited 23,888x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
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Quotes
- “I am a utilitarian. I am also a vegetarian. I am a vegetarian because I am a utilitarian.”
- “Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.”
- “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.”
- “neither our distance from a preventable evil nor the number of other people who, in respect to that evil, are in the same situation as we are, lessens our obligation to mitigate or prevent that evil.”
- “Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.”
- “Speciesism—the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term—is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.”
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Peter Albert David Singer (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. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for vegetarianism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which argues the moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world. For most of his career he was a preference utilitarian. He revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.
On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996, he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004, Singer was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. In 2005 The Sydney Morning Herald placed him among Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals. Singer is a co-founder of Animals Australia and the founder of the non-profit organisation The Life You Can Save.