Who is Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. 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 veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he stated in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.

On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he f...
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Tpmquote: peter singer: claiming darwin for the left
Shootintheskeat: i’m not a horse whisperer, i’m a peter singer
Exuberic: im doing baby's first ethics (reading peter singer papers)
Alexeidrummond: i recently re-read famine, affluence and morality by peter singer (1972). hard not to agree with the conclusion that we, the affluent, are all evil. reminds me why i donate to charities like oxfam, but also why the pitiful amounts i donate don’t match the scale of the injustice.
Goldenintime: peter gabriel - in your eyes (secret world live)
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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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