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Peter Singer
I am a professor of bioethics, with a background in philosophy. I work mostly in practical ethics, and am best known for Animal Liberation and for my writings about global poverty.
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Steven Pinker and Peter Singer for innovative academic contributions in the domains of rationality and moral progress
José Manuel Sánchez Ron, Emeritus Professor of History of Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, a distinguished member of the Royal Spanish Academy and secretary of the committee that chooses the recipients of the award, described the laureates as “two distinguished thinkers who add to their contributions in the academic realm the fact of seeking out ways for the betterment of society: In Singer’s case, focusing on the ethical consideration of animals, whom he sees as beings with whom we humans have much in common, and in Pinker’s case, through his practice of combining disciplines from psychology to evolutionary thought, again with humanity’s advancement uppermost in his mind.”
UPCOMING EVENTS:
THINK INC - WORLD TOUR 2023: AN EVENING WITH PETER SINGER
Perth, Friday 21 July 2023 - BOOK YOUR TICKETS
(AU Online Live Stream - BOOK YOUR TICKETS)
Adelaide, Sunday 23 July 2023 - BOOK YOUR TICKETS
Peter Singer receives the 2021 Berggruen Prize
Peter Singer has been awarded the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, a $1 million award given annually to "thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world."
Recently Published
BOOKS:
Animal Liberation Now - The Definitive Classic Renewed, HarperCollins, US and Penguin Random House, UK, 2023
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition, Princeton University Press, USA, and Text Publishing, Australia & New Zealand, 2023
Bioethics: An Anthology, 4th edition, edited by Udo Schuklenk and Peter Singer, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2022.
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill, edited by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer for the Norton Critical Library, with an introduction and endnotes, 2021.
The Golden Ass by Apuleius, edited by Peter Singer, translated by Ellen Finkelpearl, illustrated by Anna and Varvara Kendel, Norton, New York & London; Text, Melbourne, 2021.
BOOKS IN TRANSLATION:
Animal Liberation, Russian translation, Sindbad, Moscow, 2021
The Life You Can Save, Arabic translation, Mana Publishing House, Riyadh, 2021
Animal Liberation, Estonian translation, University of Tartu Press, 2021.
Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Chinese translation (simplified characters) Shanghai Sanhui Culture and Press, Shanghai, 2021.
Animal Liberation Icelandic translation, Portfolio Press, Reykjavik 2021.
Why Vegan? Thai translation, Samyan Press, Bangkok, 2021
JOURNALS:
"Allocating Hospital Beds in the Pandemic," Analiza i Egzystencja, 60 (2022) 5-20 (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)
“Students Eat Less Meat After Studying Meat Ethics,” Review of Philosophy and Psychology, November 6, 2021 (with Eric Schwitzgebel and Brad Cokelet)
“The Threat of Great Ape Extinction From COVID-19,” Journal of Animal Ethics, Volume 11, Number 2, pp. 6-11, Fall 2021 (with Paula Casal)
“A bolder One Health: expanding the moral circle to optimize health for all,” One Health Outlook (2021) vol.3 (2021) 21 (co-authored with Simon Coghlan, Benjamin John Coghlan and Anthony Capon)
INTERVIEWS AND DIALOGUES:
"How Can We Live an Ethical Life?" The Berggruen Prize Interview, BBC World Service, 21 May 2022
“Why Peter Singer — The 'Drowning Child' Ethicist — Is Giving Away His $1 Million Prize,” NPR, September 29, 2021
“Philosopher wins $1m prize that he will donate to charity.” The Age, September 8, 2021.
"Peter Singer is Committed to Controversial Ideas," by Daniel Gross, The New Yorker, April 25, 2021
ARTICLES:
"The Simplest Way to Change the Planet's Fate," New York Times, April 22, 2023
“Can We Compare Pain Across Species?” Project Syndicate, June 13, 2023
"The Meat Paradox," The Atlantic, May 23, 2023
“Half a Century of Animal Liberation Is Not Enough,” Project Syndicate, May 16, 2023
“Should We Research Geoengineering?” Project Syndicate, April 12, 2023
"Will the Catholic Church Rethink Contraception?" Project Syndicate, March 7, 2023
"Quitting While on Top," Project Syndicate, February 10, 2023
