Peter Singer
Australian moral philosopher and bioethicist
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who writes on applied ethics, including animal ethics and the duty to help the poor. He founded the charity The Life You Can Save.
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Australian Born 1946 in Melbourne, Australia
Influenced by John Stuart Mill
About Peter Singer
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne in 1946 and was educated at universities in Melbourne and Oxford. He held a chair in bioethics at Princeton University, and earlier chaired the philosophy department at Monash University on two occasions, founding its Centre for Human Bioethics. Animal Liberation, published in 1975, made him well known internationally. He has produced more than 50 books as an author, co-author or editor, and his work has appeared in more than 30 languages. He wrote The Life You Can Save in 2009 and later started a non-profit organization named after it. In 2019 he gave that organization the rights to the book, so it could offer the ebook and audiobook free. In 2012 Australia gave him its highest civic honor.