Peter Singer
Peter Singer · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Utilitarian moral philosopher, author of 'Animal Liberation'
1946, Melbourne, Australia
Australia · United States
Peter Singer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Utilitarian moral philosopher, author of 'Animal Liberation'
Singer is a utilitarian moral philosopher whose 1975 book 'Animal Liberation' became a founding text of the modern animal-rights movement, and whose work on global poverty helped shape the effective-altruism movement. He has taught at Monash University and Princeton University. He was born in Melbourne to Jewish parents who had fled Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss; three of his grandparents were killed in the Holocaust.
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Utilitarian moral philosopher, author of 'Animal Liberation'
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