Peter Singer





Peter Singer

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in Melbourne, Australia
July 06, 1946

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John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, R.M. Hare, Jeremy Bentham


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Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. He specializes in applied ethics, approaching ethical issues from a secular preference utilitarian perspective.

He has served, on two occasions, as chair of philosophy at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996, he ran unsuccessfully as a Green candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004, he was recognized as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies.

Outside academic circles, Singer is best known for his book Animal Liberation,...more


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“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
Peter Singer

“The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”
Peter Singer

“If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?”
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

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