Peter Singer

I am a professor of bioethics, with a background in philosophy. I work mostly in practical ethics, and am best known for Animal Liberation and for my writings about global poverty.

 
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BOOKS:

The Life You Can Save, 10th Anniversary Edition, The Life You Can Save, Inc., Bainbridge Island, WA, USA & Sydney, Australia, 2019.

BOOKS IN TRANSLATION:

Animal Liberation, Hungarian translation, Az állatok felszabadítása, Oriold. Budapest 2019.

Marx, Korean translation, Munhakdongne, Paju, 2019.

Hegel, Korean translation, Munhakdongne, Paju, 2019.

The Most Good You Can Do, Chinese translation (Simplified characters), SDX Joint Publishing, Beijing, 2019.

Ethics in the Real World, Chinese translation (Complex characters), Taipei, Taiwan, 2019; Farsi translation, Novin Ketabgooya (Koocheh Books), Iran, 2019.

Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), Korean translation, Ulyuck Publishing House, Seoul, 2019.

ARTICLES:

"Was Killing Suleimani Justified?" Project Syndicate, January 2020.

“The Lives You Saved,” Project Syndicate, December 2019.

“Are Randomized Poverty-Alleviation Experiments Ethical?”, Project Syndicate, November 2019, (co-authored with Arthur Baker and Johannes Haushofer).

“The Ethics of the Global Kidney Exchange Programme,” The Lancet, vol 394, issue 10210, pp. 1775-1778, November 9, 2010 (co-authored with Francesca Minerva and Julian Savulescu).

“Making the Case for the Global Kidney Exchange,” Pursuit, (University of Melbourne) October 31, 2019 (co-authored with Francesca Minerva and Julian Savulescu).

“Greta Thunberg’s Moment,” Project Syndicate, October 2019.

 

NEXT EVENT:

 Think Inc. presents An Evening with Peter Singer.
Peter will be live on stage speaking to audiences in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland in June 2020.
Sydney, 10 June. Tickets | Brisbane, 12 June. Tickets | Auckland, 14 June. Tickets | Melbourne, 21 June. Tickets.




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