
Biography
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favour of vegetarianism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Singer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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