Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash ...

In 1971, the philosophy department at Oxford University was confronted with an unusual student. One of the few vegetarians on campus, Peter Singer staged alarming demonstrations with papier-mâché ...

(RNS) — As Peter Singer's influential 2009 book 'The Life You Can Save,' is reissued in a 10th anniversary edition, our Catholic ethicist reviews his unlikely friendship with the champion of abortion ...

“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 ...

(RNS) — Last week my column focused on my improbable decade-long friendship with the Princeton University bioethicist and committed atheist Peter Singer and our exchanges on topics from abortion and ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Greater Good? Are some acts of altruism more effective than others? Philosopher Peter Singer examines the greater good on a global scale, asking how we can ...

I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed, it took time for the role of animal production in ...

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.

This week, Project Syndicate catches up with Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and co-author of Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction. How do you – or the organization ...

Through clear-eyed arguments and ceaseless advocacy, Australian philosopher Peter Singer has revolutionized modern philanthropy—twice. His 1972 essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” argued that ...