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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

Philosophy The Life You Can Save – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer argues that people in wealthy nations should give a substantial share of their income to fight…

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Ethics How Are We to Live? – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer argues that an ethical life is a rationally defensible and more fulfilling alternative to narrow self-interest.

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Ethics The Lives of Animals – Peter Singer Peter Singer

A novelist's fictional lectures on animal rights spark philosophical debate in this hybrid work of fiction and argument.

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Ethics Practical Ethics – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer sets out a preference utilitarian method and applies it to abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, poverty, climate…

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Ethics Animal Liberation – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer's landmark 1975 book argues that equal consideration of interests extends to all sentient beings, challenging factory…

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Ethics The Expanding Circle – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer argues that reason, not biology, drives the historical widening of human moral concern beyond kin and…

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Economics One World: The Ethics of Globalisation – Peter Singer Peter Singer

Peter Singer argues that global interdependence demands a universal ethical standpoint that transcends national borders and sovereign states.

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