5/11/2023 0 Comments Animal Liberation by Peter Singer![]() ![]() ![]() They settled in Melbourne, where Singer was born in 1946. Singer's parents were Austrian Jews who immigrated to Australia from Vienna after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938. Singer is a cofounder of Animals Australia and the founder of The Life You Can Save. In 2005, The Sydney Morning Herald placed him among Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals. In 2004 Singer was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. In 1996 he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. 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. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for veganism, and the essay " Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which favours donating to help the global poor. He specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. ![]() ![]() Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. ![]()
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