Name
Peter Singer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1946-07-06 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Melbourne, Florida, USA
Biography
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) 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.
Known For
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Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence, and today a new gen...
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Live and Let Live is a feature documentary examining our relationship with animals, the hi...
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Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back o...
- 2008 Examined Life as Self
- 2013 Speciesism: The Movie as Self
- 1996 Henry: One Man's Way as Himself
- 2017 Le Temps des bêtes : un film de cruauté et de compassion as Lui-même
- 2013 Cedo as Himself
- 2013 Live and Let Live as Self - Professor of Bioethics
- 2017 Empathy as Peter Singer
- 2017 Food ReLOVution as Self
- 1998 A Cow at My Table as Himself - Philosopher, Activist
- 2018 Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story as Himself
- 2018 Do You Trust this Computer? as Self
- 2024 Humans and Other Animals as Lui-même
- 2014 Every Three Seconds
- 2026 AI & Animals: A documentary as Self
- 2008 Q&A ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Panellist
- 2005 The Colbert Report ( 1 episode )
- 2003 Enough Rope With Andrew Denton ( 1 episode )
- 2021 Great Minds ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 The Great Philosophers ( 1 episode )
