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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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
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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.
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