Peter Singer

Peter Singer AC FAHA
Singer in 2017
Born	Peter Albert David Singer (1946-07-06) 6 July 1946 (age 77)[2] Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Education	University of Melbourne (BA, MA) University College, Oxford (BPhil)
Notable work	Animal Liberation (1975) Practical Ethics (1979) The Life You Can Save (2009)
Political party	Greens
Spouse	Renata Diamond ​ (m. 1968)​
Children	3
Awards	Berggruen Prize (2021) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022)
School	Analytic philosophy Utilitarianism
Institutions	University of Oxford New York University La Trobe University Monash University Princeton University University of Melbourne
Thesis	Why Should I Be Moral? (1969)
Academic advisors	R. M. Hare (BPhil advisor)
Main interests	Applied ethics Bioethics
Notable ideas	Equal consideration of interests Speciesism Drowning child analogy Effective altruism Argument from marginal cases[1] Personism
Website	petersinger.info

Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) 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, but he revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.

On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996 he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004 Singer was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. In 2005, The Sydney Morning Herald placed him among Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals.^[3] Singer is a cofounder of Animals Australia and the founder of the non-profit organization The Life You Can Save.^[4]