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Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer 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 mor…
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culture · Australian moral philosopher (born 1946) · philosopher · professor · writer · politician · also Peter Singer, Singer
Born 6 July 1946 · Q211539
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2026· 6 entries
“s family. He contends that such a universal ethic, the so-called golden rule, is accepted by all major ethical traditions. In How Are We to Live? he delineates several formulations of that rule, including Jesus”
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“instead of a few hundred people hearing views at lectures in Marburg and Dortmund, several millions read about them or listened to them on television”
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“s capacity to hold preferences. Similar to his argument for abortion rights, Singer argues that newborns lack the essential characteristics of personhood -”
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Public attention spiked: 2,702 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5× the usual 538, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Peter Singer: ‘Capitalism is still the most productive economic system that ever existed’” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Peter Singer: ‘Capitalism is still the most productive economic system that ever existed’
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2022· 2 entries
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022).
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Singer stated that he is not fully vegan because he occasionally consumes oysters, mussels, and clams due to their lack of a central nervous system
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2021· 2 entries
Singer was awarded the US$1-million Berggruen Prize, and decided to give it away
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Singer described the war on drugs as an expensive, ineffective and extremely harmful policy
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2018· 2 entries
Singer was cited in the book Rescuing Ladybugs by author and animal advocate Jennifer Skiff as a "hero among heroes in the world" who, in arguing against speciesism "gave the modern world permission to believe what we in
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Delivered a lecture on the subject under the title Too Many People
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2017· 2 entries
Singer wrote with Jeff McMahan an op-ed in which he defends Anna Stubblefield, who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault against D
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On Trump's climate change denial and plans to withdraw from the Paris Accords, Singer advocated a boycott of all consumer goods from the United States to pressure the Trump administration to change its environmental poli
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)” in JAMA — cited 23,835 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Singer debated Archbishop Anthony Fisher on the legalisation of euthanasia at Sydney Town Hall
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (2012).
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Awarded Order of Australia (2012).
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Singer's department sponsored the "Science and Ethics of Eliminating Aging" seminar at Princeton
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2010· 2 entries
Singer signed a petition renouncing his right of return to Israel because it is "a form of racist privilege that abets the colonial oppression of the Palestinians
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That Singerian moral universalism is "preposterous—psychologically, theoretically, and practically"
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2005· 1 entry
The Sydney Morning Herald placed him among Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2004).
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Singer was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies
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2002· 1 entry
Disability rights activist Harriet McBryde Johnson debated Singer, challenging his belief that it is morally permissible to euthanise newborn children with severe disabilities
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1999· 1 entry
Because of Singer's appointment to a prestigious professorship
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1996· 2 entries
When running for the Australian Senate (elected by proportional representation)
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Stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Banjo Award for Non-Fiction (1995).
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Awarded Banjo Awards (1995).
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1991· 1 entry
Singer was due to speak along with R
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1989· 1 entry
And 1990, Singer's work was the subject of a number of protests in Germany
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1986· 5 entries
“Kiedy lecę z Nowego Jorku do Polski, zadaję sobie na przykład pytanie, czy efekt tej wizyty może usprawiedliwić zajmowanie miejsca w samolocie, który zużywa paliwo i niszczy środowisko.”
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“Moja sugestia jest więc taka, żeby nadać życiu płodu nie większą wartość niż życiu zwierzęcia niebędącego człowiekiem o podobnym stopniu racjonalności, samoświadomości, świadomości, zdolności do odczuwania itd.”
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“Holandia podtrzymuje prawo do eutanazji bez względu na to, kto rządzi, a Polska jej zakazuje bez względu na to, kto rządzi. Bo to jest kwestia zaufania do lekarzy i ich etyki zawodowej, do prawników, do państwa, do własnej rodziny. Społeczeństwa o wyższych standardach etycznych i wyższym poziomie zaufania lepiej sobie radzą z takimi wyzwaniami.”
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“Wszystkie argumenty na podparcie ludzkiej wyższości nie są w stanie zaprzeczyć jednej niezaprzeczalnej prawdzie: w cierpieniu zwierzęta są nam równe.”
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“Z chwilą, kiedy podstawą pozycji społecznej stało się samo bogactwo – zamiast np. mądrości, wiedzy, prawości czy sprawności w posługiwaniu się bronią – bogaci musieli znaleźć sposoby wydawania pieniędzy, których wyłącznym celem było demonstrowanie bogactwa. Thorstein Veblen nazwał to „ostentacyjną konsumpcją.”
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1985· 1 entry
Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing nonprofit 'State Surrogacy Boards', which would ensure fairness between s
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1981).
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1977· 1 entry
Returned to Melbourne where he spent most of his career, aside from appointments as visiting faculty abroad, until his move to Princeton in 1999
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1975· 1 entry
Animal Liberation has been cited as a formative influence on leaders of the modern animal liberation movement
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1974· 1 entry
But resigned after disillusionment with the centrist leadership of Bob Hawke; in 1992, he became a founding member of the Victorian Greens
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1972· 1 entry
“Famine, Affluence and Morality”
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1971· 2 entries
Studied at University College, Oxford, Bachelor of Philosophy (1971).
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With a thesis on civil disobedience supervised by R
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1967· 1 entry
Studied at University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts (1967).
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-07-06.
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