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5 unusual facts about Peter Singer


Animal treatment in rodeo

Moral philosopher Peter Singer has criticized the AHA for collaborating with rodeo and thereby lending respectability to its cruelties.

Evolutionary theory and the political left

Singer, P., (1999) Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.

Others on the left such as Australian bioethicist Peter Singer in A Darwinian Left have embraced modern evolutionary theory but reach different political and economic lessons than more conservative observers.

George Kateb

As a member of the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values he was involved with the search committee that somewhat controversially appointed noted Australian philosopher Peter Singer to a chair in bioethics at Princeton in 1999.

Hidden in Plain Sight

And yet in another level the text contains ethical and moral reflections pertaining universal questions of helping another human beings referring, among others, to sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and philosopher Peter Singer, especially his Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.


Animal studies

Taking up Derrida's deconstruction and extending it to other cultural territory, Cary Wolfe published Animal Rites in 2003 and critiqued earlier animal rights philosophers such as Peter Singer and Thomas Regan.

Council of Australian Humanist Societies

Recent winners of the Australian Humanist of the Year include Gareth Evans (1990), Robyn Williams (1993), William Hayden (1996), Philip Nitschke (1998), Peter Singer (2004), Tim Flannery (2005) and Peter Cundall (2006), Lyn Alison (2010) and Dr Leslie Cannold (2011).

Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, a direct offshoot of the imprint, publishes eminent authors such as Peter Singer, Harper Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Russell Banks, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sylvia Plath, and Thornton Wilder among many others.

Philosophy Bites

The series is hosted by Nigel Warburton, senior lecturer at the Open University, and David Edmonds and has featured interviews with guests including Barry C. Smith, Simon Blackburn, A.C. Grayling, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michael Dummett, Tzvetan Todorov, David Chalmers and C.A.J. (Tony) Coady.

The Lives of Animals

The collection features an introduction by Amy Gutmann, and following Coetzee’s contribution are reflections on his ideas by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts.

William Crawley

Other TV presenting roles include the weekly late-night television interview series "William Crawley Meets ...", face-to-face interviews of 30 minutes in duration with leading thinkers and social reformers from across the world, including the philosopher Peter Singer, the scientist Richard Dawkins, the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, and the gay bishop Gene Robinson.


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Bachelor of Philosophy

Notable graduates of the BPhil include: Daniel Dennett, Peter Singer, George Boolos, Thomas Nagel, GA Cohen, Patricia Churchland, JJC Smart, Galen Strawson, Kris Kristofferson.