Peter Singer
Position
Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values and, at the University of Melbourne, laureate professor in the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Peter Singer
Position
Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values and, at the University of Melbourne, laureate professor in the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
About
Bio/Description
He is the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and with Helga Kuhse, founding coeditor of the journal Bioethics. A prolific author and coauthor whose work has been translated into 20 languages, Singer became well-known after the publication of Animal Liberation (1976). His recent books include The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (2009), The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter/The Ethics of What We Eat (2006), and One World (2002).Singer is also cofounder and president of The Great Ape Project, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
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