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Peter Singer

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His books include Animal Liberation, The Ethics of What We Eat and The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty.
 
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Arts & Letters

Philosophic Emissions: Roger Scruton’s 'Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet'

Peter Singer

Climate change is a threat to us all but it poses a particular difficulty for those who, like English philosopher Roger Scruton, are on the...

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Peter Singer: Does understanding evolution help us to understand ethics?

Peter Singer

Part 1 | Part 2 As Peter Singer argues in this Sydney Ideas talk, evolution is neutral with regard to values. However understanding...

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The ethics of climate change. Peter Singer, Tim Soutphommasane

Part 1 | Part 2Presenting at the Deakins 2010, ethical thinkers Peter Singer, Tim Soutphommasane and Kartikeya Sarabhai (India) speak about...

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Peter Singer: Why we need a beef tax

Peter Singer

Delivering the Wheeler Centre's inaugural Lunchbox/Soapbox address, controversial ethicist Peter Singer advocates for the introduction of a...

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Books

Cold Turkey: Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Eating Animals’

Peter Singer

Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues. In Everything Is Illuminated (2003), he...

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Peter Singer in conversation with Louise Adler: The life you can save

Peter Singer

World-renowned ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer discusses his new book with Louise Adler. In The Life You Can Save, Singer argues that...

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Peter Singer in conversation with Louise Adler (p2): The life you can save

Peter Singer

World-renowned ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer discusses his new book with Louise Adler. In The Life You Can Save, Singer argues that...

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