Peter Singer

Person · Open Library

Born

6 July 1946

Works

186

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Film & TV

Acting · Melbourne, Florida, USA

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…

Known for

• 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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Australia

Active from

1946

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945

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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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

   · 1999 · cited 87,481x

2. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

   · 1987 · cited 42,828x

3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,950x

4. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

   · 2019 · cited 25,630x

5. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,255x

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

David

Family name

Singer

Gender

male

Citizenship

Australia

Place of birth

Melbourne

Occupation

politician

Employer

La Trobe University

Languages spoken

Australian English

Native language

Australian English

Religion

atheism

Field of work

applied ethics

Movement

utilitarianism

Official website

petersinger.info

Image

Peter Singer 2017-01 (cropped).jpg

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