Famed philosopher Peter Singer turns 80 and rejects the claim that there are no ethical billionaires, pointing to expanding ...

“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 ...

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.

I want to argue that false philosophy can be dangerous, and to suggest that, if circumstances prevent its being refuted in print, it is probably all right, in extreme cases, to try to silence it in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2017, Talitha Wisner was completing her assigned reading for Practical Ethics—one of Princeton University’s most popular philosophy classes—when she decided to e-mail her professor. In ...

In 1972, the philosopher Peter Singer published his Drowning Child thought experiment, one of the most influential ideas in modern philosophy. Show more In 1971, the region that is now Bangladesh ...

On Sept. 7, Professor of Bioethics Peter Singer was named the recipient of the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. He joins past recipients including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Farmer, ...

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher widely regarded as one of the most influential living philosophers, particularly for his contributions to the animal liberation movement. Born in Melbourne to ...