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Peter Singer

Peter Singer

Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, One World, The President of Good and Evil, and editor of In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave.
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  • Free Tilly – and all Circus Animals

    Peter Singer Series: The Ethics of Life
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    2010-03-08
    Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her until she was dead. The death is a tragedy, but there is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses.... read
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  • Haiti and the Limits of Generosity

    Peter Singer Series: The Ethics of Life
    2010-02-15
    cartoon All over the world, people have responded generously to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, killing up to 200,000 people. But, terrible as that death toll is, it is fewer than the number of children who, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, die every 10 days from avoidable, poverty-related causes.... read
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  • How to Keep a New Year’s Resolution

    Peter Singer Series: The Ethics of Life
    2010-01-04
    We are not yet far into 2010, but studies show that fewer than half of those who make New Year’s resolutions manage to keep them for as long as one month. But there are steps that you can take to increase your chances of succeeding.... read
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  • Rights for Robots?

    Peter Singer and Agata Sagan Series: The Ethics of Life
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    2009-12-14
    cartoon If machines can and do become conscious, will we take their feelings into account? The development of a conscious robot that (who?) was not widely perceived to have moral standing and interests worthy of consideration could lead to mistreatment on a large scale.... read
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  • The Many Crises of Health Care

    Peter Singer Series: 2009 Year End Series
    2009-12-07
    Barack Obama’s administration spent much of 2009 preoccupied domestically with the political fight to extend health insurance to the millions of Americans who have none. Every other developed country provides universal health insurance, but the US debate highlights an issue that will worry almost all of them in 2010 and beyond: the struggle to control health-care costs.... read
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  • When Doctors Kill

    Peter Singer Series: The Ethics of Life
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    2009-11-13
    cartoon Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the “slippery slope”: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. There is no evidence for this claim, but recent revelations about what took place in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina point to a genuine danger from a different source.... read
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  • A Day for Planetary Justice

    Peter Singer Series: The Ethics of Life
    2009-10-14
    What we are doing to our planet, to our children and grandchildren, and to the poor, by our heedless production of greenhouse gases, is one of the great moral wrongs of our age. On October 24, people in countries around the world will stand up against this injustice. ... read
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  • The Quality of Mercy

    Peter Singer Series: The Ethics of Life
    2009-08-31
    cartoon When should we forgive or show mercy to wrongdoers? Three recent cases - the compassionate release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the reinstatement of American football player Michael Vick, and the first public expression of remorse by former Lt. William Calley, who in 1968 ordered the My Lai massacre - give ample reason to contemplate that question.... read
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  • Kidneys for Sale?

    Peter Singer Series: The Ethics of Life
    2009-08-14
    The arrest in New York last month of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn businessman whom police allege tried to broker a deal to buy a kidney, coincided with the passage of a law in Singapore that some say will open the way for organ trading there. Would legalizing the market for human body parts exploit the poor, or should the poor be free to choose?... read
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