Peter Singer
Acting•Born July 6, 1946 (age 79)•Melbourne, Florida, USA
Biography
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favour of vegetarianism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Singer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Colbert Report
2005•TV Series•
6.9
Q&A
2008•TV Series•
3.2
Great Minds
2021•TV Series•
5.2
Enough Rope With Andrew Denton
2003•TV Series•
7.0
The Great Philosophers
1987•TV Series•
6.0
Do You Trust this Computer?
2018•Movie•
7.1
Food ReLOVution
2017•Movie
Le Temps des bêtes : un film de cruauté et de compassion
2017•Movie
Filmography
Personal Info
DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 6, 1946
Place of BirthMelbourne, Florida, USA
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