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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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Person · Open Library
- 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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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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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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- Peter Singer
- date of birth
- 1946-07-06
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- Category:Peter Singer
- time period
- contemporary philosophy
- name in native language
- Peter Singer
- birth name
- Peter Albert David Singer
- social media followers
- 117365
- different from
- Peter A. Singer
- writing language
- English language
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Article · Español
Peter Albert David Singer (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 de julio de 1946), citado como Peter Singer, es un filósofo utilitarista australiano. Es profesor de derecho y de filosofía en la Universidad de Monash (Melbourne). Tras sus estudios iniciales en Australia, se traslada a la Universidad de Oxford, donde toma contacto con el utilitarismo ético mediante la lectura de autores en lengua inglesa, como Jeremy Bentham y John Stuart Mill. Allí participa de protestas contra la guerra de Vietnam, y también tiene lugar su «conversión» al vegetarianismo, por influencia de algunos estudiantes, que le despertaron el interés por los problemas en ética aplicada relativos al trato ético a los animales, el aborto, la eutanasia, la pobreza, la distribución de ingresos, la educación, entre otros. Singer es desde 2009 miembro de Giving What We Can, una organización centrada en el altruismo eficaz cuyos miembros se comprometen a donar al menos el 10% de sus ingresos a organizaciones benéficas efectivas.
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