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Peter Singer
"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential."--The New Yorker
Peter Singer has been professor of bioethics at Princeton University since 1999. Previously, he was professor of ethics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He was a founding member of the Green Party in Victoria, Australia and was a Green Party senate candidate. He has taught at Oxford University and New York University, among others. His work in ethics is part of academic syllabuses around the world and his 1975 book Animal Liberation is the seminal work of that movement. His books include:
- One World: The Ethics of Globalization
- The Darwinian Left
- How Are We to Live?
- Animal Liberation
- The Great Ape Project, with Paola Cavalieri
- In Defense of Animals, editor
- Animal Rights and Human Obligations, editor
- Animal Factories, with Jim Mason
- Practical Ethics