Peter Singer Best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, at Prince
Peter Singer is arguably the most influential living philosopher of our day. His book on Animal Liberation basically started the animal rights movement and his textbook on Practical Ethics is the standard philosophy text of first-year students. No wonder that in 2005 Time Magazine called Peter Sing...
His research is devoted primarily to moral philosophy and to practical ethics. His most significant works to date are Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save. This work has pushed Singer into public life where he has waged a political campaign ...
philosophy philanthropy About the speaker Peter Singer Philosopher, ethicist See speaker profile Sometimes controversial, always practical ethicist Peter Singer stirs public debate about morality, from animal welfare to global poverty. Learn more BOOK ...
Environmental Ethics: Singer vs Regan Environmental ethics is defined: as a part of philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the nonhuman world (Wikipedia). For example‚ this includes the preservation of plants and an increase...
Privacy is Utterly Dead Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor at Princeton University and the University of Melbourne that studies Bioethics‚ Philosophy and Public Ethics. His essay “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” focuses on transparency and personal privacy. One can se...
Many liberals disagree with Justice Thomas’s conservative judicial philosophy, which emphasizes originalism and strict interpretation of the Constitution. They argue that this approach leads to narrow interpretations of individual rights and protections, particularly for marginalized groups. Similarly, ...
” This begs the question what a “truly metaphysical activity” is. We’ll see what he has to say but my guess is that he would contrast the product of art with the false metaphysics offered up by religion and philosophy among other pursuits. False in the sense that they offer up ...
Moral philosopher and author Peter Singer has released a revised version of his seminal 1975 book ’Animal Liberation.' If you have studied moral philosophy sometime in the last few decades, or if you are involved in the animal rights movement, you're probably familiar with Peter Singer. The...
SINGER: Well, I don’t think I was a particularly moral person before I studied philosophy. And even when I began studying philosophy, I don’t think it had an immediate change. The real factor that made me bring ethics into my life was when I had a chance lunch with a fellow student...