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Peter Singer (born 1946) is an Australian philosopher concerned with treatment of animals and other ethical topics.

Peter Singer Australian philosopher

Peter Albert David Singer, AC 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 veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he stated in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.

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Sir Jan Peter Singer was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

Peter Alexander Singer, OC, MD, MPH, FRSC, is Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization.

P. W. Singer American political scientist

P. W. Singer is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar and a specialist on 21st century warfare. He is currently Strategist for the New America Foundation and a contributing editor for Popular Science.

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