Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specializes 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 favor of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor.
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Ethics, Moral and ethical aspects, Animal rights, Animal welfare, Biography, Domestic relations, Ethik, History, Medical ethics, Philosophy, Politics and government, Animal rights movement, Bioethics, Domestic relations, great britain, Fertilization in Vitro, Food industry and trade, Great Britain, Human Fertilization in vitro, Humanitarianism, Medical Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy and ethics, Poverty, Vegetarianism, 1740-1800Places
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George W. Bush (1946-), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Henry Cort (1740-1800), Henry Spira (1927-), Karl Marx (1818-1883)Time
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