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.
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."
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BOOKS:
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:
“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)
Journal of Controversial Ideas, vol. 1, issue 1 (April 2021) (Co-edited with Jeff McMahan and Francesca Minerva)
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:
"Will the Catholic Church Rethink Contraception?", Project Syndicate, February 10, 2023
"Quitting While on Top", Project Syndicate, February 10, 2023
"In Defense of the Art-Targeting Climate Activists", Project Syndicate, January 3, 2023
"Has the FTX Debacle Discredited Effective Altruism?", Project Syndicate, November 23, 2022
"Free Speech for Whom?", Project Syndicate, November 7, 2022
"Research Ethics and Non-Human Subjects", Project Syndicate, October 7, 2022
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