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Peter Singer

1946 - Today

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Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for vegetarianism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which argues the moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Singer has received more than 3,160,601 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Peter Singer is the 389th most popular philosopher (down from 330th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Australia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Philosopher.

Peter Singer is most famous for his book Animal Liberation, which argues that the interests of animals should be considered equal to those of humans.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Peter Singer ranks 389 out of 1,267. Before him are Karl Rahner, George Santayana, J. L. Austin, E. H. Carr, Mulla Sadra, and Paul Tillich. After him are Étienne Gilson, Heinrich Rickert, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Damascius, Alain de Lille, and Kapila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Peter Singer ranks 92. Before him are Daniel Goleman, Ed O'Neill, John Paul Jones, John Heard, Janet Yellen, and Laura Bush. After him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Stefania Sandrelli, Semion Mogilevich, Steve Biko, Paul L. Modrich, and Ajda Pekkan.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Peter Singer ranks 28 out of 1,143. Before him are Colleen McCullough (1937), Hugh Jackman (1968), Mara (null), John Eccles (1903), V. Gordon Childe (1892), and Robin Warren (1937). After him are Macfarlane Burnet (1899), Steve Irwin (1962), John Cornforth (1917), P. L. Travers (1899), Lionel Logue (1880), and Ned Kelly (1855).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Australia

Among philosophers born in Australia, Peter Singer ranks 1. After him are Samuel Alexander (1859), David Chalmers (1966), J. L. Mackie (1917), John Finnis (1940), and David Malet Armstrong (1926).

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