
Biography
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 moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world. For most of his career he was a preference utilitarian. He revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.
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Awards & recognition
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award · 2022
- Companion of the Order of Australia · 2012
- Order of Australia · 2012
- Emperor Has No Clothes Award · 2004
- Banjo Award — Non-Fiction · 1995
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- Banjo Awards · 1995
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities · 1981
- Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung
Filmography7 titles

Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story

Live and Let Live

The Colbert Report

Empathy

Examined Life

Humans and Other Animals

Every Three Seconds