Animal Liberation Now
An updated argument for taking animal suffering seriously, examining farming, research, food choices and their wider consequences.
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01 / Peter Singer on
Animal ethics
Peter Singer argues that sentient animals’ interests deserve equal consideration. His work examines speciesism, factory farming, animal experimentation, and the practical consequences of taking animal suffering seriously.
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Practical Ethics
An introduction to applied ethics that tests moral principles against difficult questions about animals, poverty, medicine and the environment.
Ethics in the Real World
Ninety short essays bring ethical reasoning to everyday choices, public debates and our responsibilities to people and animals.
The Expanding Circle
An exploration of evolution, altruism and the role of reasoning in extending concern beyond our own family or community.
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Bioethics
Singer applies ethical reasoning to decisions about life and death, medical treatment, reproductive technology, disability, and genetic selection, questioning rules that treat every case as morally identical.
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Practical Ethics
An introduction to applied ethics that tests moral principles against difficult questions about animals, poverty, medicine and the environment.
Ethics in the Real World
Ninety short essays bring ethical reasoning to everyday choices, public debates and our responsibilities to people and animals.
Rethinking Life and Death
A challenge to traditional assumptions about the sanctity of human life, examined through medicine and decisions about life and death.
Should the Baby Live?
Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer examine difficult decisions about treatment for newborn infants through philosophical argument and case studies.
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Giving
Singer’s writing asks what we owe to people living in poverty and how we can help most effectively. Beginning with “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” he argues that distance does not diminish our responsibility to prevent avoidable suffering.
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The Life You Can Save
An argument for responding to extreme poverty through effective giving, with practical ways to turn concern into action.
The Most Good You Can Do
An exploration of effective altruism through the choices of people trying to make their time, careers and donations do more good.
Practical Ethics
An introduction to applied ethics that tests moral principles against difficult questions about animals, poverty, medicine and the environment.
Ethics in the Real World
Ninety short essays bring ethical reasoning to everyday choices, public debates and our responsibilities to people and animals.
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Profit For Good
Singer’s work on Profit For Good explores how businesses can direct profits to effective charities. It connects everyday economic activity with the effort to reduce suffering and improve lives.
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The Most Good You Can Do
An exploration of effective altruism through the choices of people trying to make their time, careers and donations do more good.
The Life You Can Save
An argument for responding to extreme poverty through effective giving, with practical ways to turn concern into action.
How Are We to Live?
An exploration of meaning and self-interest that asks whether living ethically can give life a deeper sense of purpose.
Ethics in the Real World
Ninety short essays bring ethical reasoning to everyday choices, public debates and our responsibilities to people and animals.