Director

Peter Singer

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 556159

IMDb ID: nm1638299

Known for: Acting

Born: July 6, 1946

Age: 80

Place of birth: Melbourne, Florida, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1987 - 2026

Years active: 40

Average TMDB rating: 6.85

Wikidata: Q211539

Also known as

Peter Albert David Singer

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Biography

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.