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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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Film & TV
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
- topic's main category
- 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 · 日本語
ピーター・シンガー（Peter Singer, 1946年7月6日 - ）は、オーストラリア・メルボルン出身の哲学者、倫理学者。モナシュ大学教授を経て、現在、プリンストン大学教授。専門は応用倫理学。功利主義の立場から、倫理の問題を探求している。著書『動物の解放』は、動物の権利や菜食主義の思想的根拠として、広く活用されている。『ザ・ニューヨーカー』誌によって「最も影響力のある現代の哲学者」と呼ばれ、2005年に『タイム』誌では「世界の最も影響力のある100人」の一人に選ばれた。メルボルン大学出身で、そこで法学、史学、哲学を学んだ。 両親は第二次世界大戦の前にウィーンから移住したユダヤ人で母は医者、父は茶、コーヒーの輸入業を営む。
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