“Philosophy ... changes what people decide to do with their lives, what careers they choose, what they do with their money, how they eat.” In 1975, Peter Singer helped create the foundation for the ...

Promoting his new book “The Most Good You Can Do,” philosopher Peter A. D. Singer spoke about the philosophy behind effective altruism and ways to give to charity that would maximize the common good ...

Peter Singer is one of the world's best known philosophers, recognized for his thought-provoking views on topics including animal rights, bioethics and the plight of the world's poorest people. Since ...

On Sept. 7, Professor of Bioethics Peter Singer was named the recipient of the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. He joins past recipients including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Farmer, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In a Princeton University lecture hall one morning last December, Peter Singer, one ...

At the New York Times blog, Peter Singer favorably discusses a book that I haven’t read–Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence–that illuminates the profound danger of Singer’s ...

Best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, at Princeton ...

University of Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. As revealed at Leiter Reports recently, the Cologne Philosophy Festival disinvited Peter Singer, who was to speak at this ...

in ger may be our best known ethicist. A shy, bespectacled Australian who teaches at Princeton, he is regularly interviewed on The Colbert Show (watch him here.) Popular interest usually does not ...

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher widely regarded as one of the most influential living philosophers, particularly for his contributions to the animal liberation movement. Born in Melbourne to ...

Rhodes College’s philosophy department hosted a conversation with controversial bioethicist Peter Singer Wednesday, as planned, despite opposition to the event from faculty members from several other ...

The philosopher, in keeping with his ideas about “effective altruism,” said he plans to donate half the prize to alleviating global poverty. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past decade, the ...