Peter Singer

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Born 1946-07-06 Melbourne, Florida, USA 20 credits Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung 1 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 1 Companion of the Order of Australia 1 Order of Australia 1

Awards

Won 1 Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung Award

Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung 1 won

— Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung Won

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 1 won

2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Won

Companion of the Order of Australia 1 won

2012 Companion of the Order of Australia Won

Order of Australia 1 won

2012 Order of Australia Won

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Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specialises 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 favour of vegetarianism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor.

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Acting 15 credits