Peter Singer
Australian utilitarian philosopher whose Animal Liberation launched the modern animal rights movement and whose arguments about our obligations to the global poor have influenced effective altruism. Practical Ethics applies utilitarian reasoning to abortion, euthanasia, and global poverty with consistent, provocative results.
Works
- Animal LiberationPhilosophical argument for animal rights based on their capacity to suffer
- Practical EthicsGuide to applied ethics covering abortion, euthanasia, poverty, and global issues
- The Expanding CircleAccount of how moral concern expands from family to tribe to all sentient beings
- The Life You Can SaveArgument that affluent individuals have moral duty to prevent global poverty
- Famine, Affluence, and MoralityEssay on the ethics of allowing global poverty when preventing it is morally required