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Īccording to philosopher Helga Kuhse, Singer is "almost certainly the best-known and most widely read of all contemporary philosophers". In June 2011 it was announced he would join the professoriate of New College of the Humanities, a private college in London, in addition to his work at Princeton. He returned to Melbourne in 1977, where he spent most of his career, aside from appointments as visiting faculty abroad, until his move to Princeton in 1999. Īfter spending two years as a Radcliffe lecturer at University College, Oxford, he was a visiting professor at New York University for 16 months. McCloskey as his two most important mentors. Singer names Hare and Australian philosopher H. Hare and subsequently published as a book in 1973. He was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, and obtained from there a B.Phil in 1971, with a thesis on civil disobedience supervised by R. He received an MA for a thesis entitled Why should I be moral? in 1969. After leaving school, Singer studied law, history and philosophy at the University of Melbourne, gaining his BA degree ( hons) in 1967. He attended Preshil and later Scotch College. Singer's father imported tea and coffee, while his mother practiced medicine. His grandparents were less fortunate: his paternal grandparents were taken by the Nazis to Łódź, and were never heard from again his maternal grandfather died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. They settled in Melbourne, where Singer was born. Singer's parents were Viennese Jews who emigrated to Australia from Vienna in 1938, after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany.

3.3.2 Vegetarianism and ethics of food consumption.

3.3.1 Evolutionary biology and leftist politics.

3.1 Abortion, euthanasia and infanticide.

He was voted one of Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals in 2006. He serves on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO formed to develop the Health Impact Fund proposal. In 2004 he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies, and in June 2012 was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his services to philosophy and bioethics. In 1996 he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. On two occasions Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. He is known in particular for his book, Animal Liberation (1975), a canonical text in animal rights/liberation theory. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, preference utilitarian perspective. 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. Template:Other people Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox philosopher Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian Jewish moral philosopher.