Biography peter singer

Australian moral philosopher (born 1946)

For other people named Peter Singer, see Peter Singer (disambiguation).

Peter Albert David SingerAC 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. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for vegetarianism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which argues the moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world.

For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian.

Biography peter singer

He revealed 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 founded its Centre for Human Bioethics.

In 1996, he stood u