Recent and archived work by Peter Singer for The New York Times If we are to live well, we need to be able to ask when a life is complete. By Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer President Biden ...

Two Princeton professors, Jeanne Altmann and Peter Singer, have been awarded 2023 Frontiers of Knowledge Awards by the BBVA Foundation. The awards recognize basic research and creative work worldwide ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Australian philosopher Peter Singer has been a champion of animal rights for more than 50 years. His basic philosophical position has remained the same: the suffering of animals is just as important ...

When I first learned that a thorough revision of Peter Singer's classic book Animal Liberation was going to be published in May 2023 with the title Animal Liberation Now, I couldn't wait to get my ...

It's been a long time since philosophers had to fear the fate of Socrates, who was executed in ancient Athens for atheism and corrupting the young. Still, it's rare for philosophers to receive great ...

Americans Are of Two Minds About the ‘Moral Acceptability’ of Suicide Rioting in Northern Ireland Graham Platner, the Leftist Caricature of a U.S. Marine Moment of Truth: Iran Shoots Down U.S. Apache ...

UC Berkeley’s Philosophy Forum is facing pushback from campus students for hosting author and philosopher Peter Singer on Nov. 6 due to controversy from Singer’s comments on people with disabilities.

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 ...

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Peter Singer is professor emeritus of bioethics at Princeton University and ...