Author Archive

Peter Singer

Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher born in 1946, known for applying utilitarian principles to animal ethics, global poverty, and bioethics. His major works include Animal Liberation (1975), Practical Ethics (1979), and the essay Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972), which helped inspire the effective altruism movement. He is especially associated with the principle of equal consideration of interests for animals and with the argument that affluent people should give far more to alleviate global poverty.

22 summaries in the archive

Biography Pushing Time Away – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer recovers the life of his grandfather David Oppenheim, a Viennese scholar who perished in Theresienstadt.

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Economics Saving a Life: Acting Now to End Poverty – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer argues that affluent people have a serious moral obligation to help those in extreme poverty through…

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Ethics Embryo Experimentation – Peter Singer Peter Singer

An interdisciplinary volume co-edited by Peter Singer examining the ethics, science, and regulation of human embryo experimentation.

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Cultural History Bioethics – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Barry places modern medical controversies inside the long history of Western thought about human nature, truth, and destiny.

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Education The Cambridge textbook of bioethics – Peter Singer Peter Singer

A case-based reference in bioethics edited by Peter Singer and A. M.

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Ethics Why Vegan? – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer's Why Vegan? makes a concise ethical, environmental, and public-health case for giving up animal products.

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Law Financial Remedies Practice Eighth – Peter Singer Peter Singer

A practitioner reference on the law and practice of financial remedies in England and Wales, covering divorce claims…

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Ethics Writings on an Ethical Life – Peter Singer Peter Singer

A curated anthology of Peter Singer's essays spanning ethics, animal rights, global poverty, and how to live an…

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Ancient History Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine – Peter Singer Peter Singer

A scholarly collection exploring how Greek and Roman medical writers conceptualized, diagnosed, and treated mental disorders.

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Ethics In Defense of Animals – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer edits essays on the moral status of animals, animal suffering, and effective advocacy.

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Ethics Rats, patients and people – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer's 1989 lecture examines how research is ethically regulated, weighing animal experimentation against the treatment of human…

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Ethics Rethinking life & death – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer argues that the traditional sanctity-of-life ethic is collapsing and being replaced by new principles drawn from…

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Biography Hegel – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer offers a compact, lucid guide to Hegel's philosophy, from his life and times to his enduring…

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Genetics Science, Society, and the Supermarket – Peter Singer Peter Singer

A multidisciplinary study of nutrigenomics and the ethical, social, and regulatory questions raised when gene-diet science moves into…

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Ethics The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer and Jim Mason trace everyday meals back through farms and factories to weigh animal suffering, health,…

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Other Works by Peter Singer

Ethical and legal issues in guardianship options for intellectually disadvantaged people (1986)
Medical ethics (1988)
Higil (2000)
Financial remedies under the family procedure rules (2012)