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4 days ago · Peter Singer is an Australian ethical and political philosopher best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)
Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
Peter Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’ 1 is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential texts in applied ethics. This study guide explains Singer’s central argument, explores possible objections, and clarifies common misunderstandings.
Nov 29, 2023 · Readers new to Peter Singer’s work will find Ethics in the Real World a reliable introduction to his thoughts on a wide variety of interesting and pressing issues that “really matter.” Some of them matter existentially for the human species and our planet.
I have written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason) and The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek).
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation.
In Practical Ethics, Singer commits himself to a general two-level theory about the content of morality, a theory of the sort that Richard Hare advocates. 3 The higher level which is basic is strictly impartial consequentialism.
