Effective Altruism & Speciesism, with Peter Singer

Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its “All-TIME” list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. He has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 book which have been translated into more than 30 languages. His books include Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, Ethics in the Real World, Why Vegan? and, most recently, he has edited a new edition of what may be the world’s earliest surviving novel, The Golden Ass, by Apuleius. Singer’s book The Life You Can Save, first published in 2009, led him to found a non-profit organization of the same name which has raised more than US$35 million for the most effective charities assisting people in extreme poverty. In 2012 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honour. Since 2021, he has been a co-editor of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, which enables authors to publish well-argued controversial essays in a peer-reviewed journal under a pseudonym.

https://petersinger.info

https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/