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Peter Singer

Australian moral philosopher; author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save.

• Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who works in applied ethics from a utilitarian view.
• He is Emeritus Ira W.
• DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton, where he gave his last lecture in 2023.
• Animal Liberation (1975) shaped the animal rights movement.
• The Life You Can Save (2009) influenced effective altruism.

Key facts

Born

6 July 1946, Melbourne1

Now

Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University (at Princeton from 1999; last lecture 2023)1

Books

Animal Liberation (1975; fully revised 2023); Practical Ethics (1980); The Life You Can Save (2009); The Point of View of the Universe, with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (2014); The Most Good You Can Do (2015); Consider the Turkey (2024)1

Founded

The Life You Can Save (non-profit); co-founded Animals Australia; founded Monash University's Centre for Human Bioethics1

Writes

Project Syndicate, regularly from 2001; Bold Reasoning with Peter Singer on Substack1

Education

University of Melbourne (BA 1967, MA 1969); University of Oxford (BPhil 1971)1

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