Overview
Peter Singer
Known For
Do You Trust this Computer?
Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence,...
Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story
This groundbreaking film reveals the truth surrounding Australia’s love-hate relationship...
Biography
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 (1975), in which he argues in favour of vegetarianism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Singer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.