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Author, Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, The Most Good You Can Do, Animal Liberation Now. Podcast: petersinger.info/podcast AI Persona: PeterSinger.ai Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, Princeton University.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 28/09/2026
From One World: The Ethics of Globalization (Yale University Press, 2002) #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #Morality
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 27/09/2026
When I received the $1 million Berggruen Prize, I gave it away: half to effective charities helping people in extreme poverty, and half to organisations working to reduce animal suffering, especially factory farming.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 26/09/2026
This session is open to anyone interested in philanthropy, leadership, impact, and the question of what companies could do with their profits. 30 September 09:00–10:15 CEST / 5:00–6:15pm AEST Register for free: luma.com/fnqst5xm
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 25/09/2026
Listen to the full conversation 🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/l... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/07qG... #PeterSinger #RyanHoliday #LivesWellLived #Trump #Philosophy
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 23/09/2026
I’m sharing what happened because I suspect this problem will only become more difficult as search, social media and AI increasingly shape what people come to believe. Swipe through for the full story. #PeterSinger #Misinformation #Journalism #AI #Gaza
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 22/09/2026
Imagine being lowered into a gas chamber while fully conscious. The gas causes pain as it dissolves into the moist tissues of your eyes, nose, mouth and lungs. Breathing becomes extremely painful. And you may remain conscious for up to 60 seconds before finally blacking out.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 22/09/2026
“Happiness, Money, and Giving It Away,” from Ethics in the Real World (Princeton University Press, 2016) #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #EffectiveAltruism #Giving
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 19/09/2026
Billions of animals are confined, mutilated, and killed because their suffering is treated as less important than our taste. In this interview with @bigthink.com, I argue that species membership is not what makes suffering matter. #PeterSinger #BigThink #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AI
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 18/09/2026
If children grow up interacting with AI companions, how might that shape the way they understand relationships? In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with Dana Suskind, pediatric surgeon and author of Human Raised. #PeterSinger #DanaSuskind #Podcast #AI #Parenting
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 17/09/2026
In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with physicist and philosopher @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the mystery of consciousness, whether morality is constructed, and how we create meaning in a universe without an objective purpose.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 16/09/2026
9 in 10 children in the world’s poorest countries cannot read this sentence. In my new Substack issue, I look at why the global education crisis is not quite the crisis many of us think it is, and why some solutions are remarkably effective. #PeterSinger #Education #GlobalPoverty
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 15/09/2026
In this excerpt from my conversation with Jack Symes, we discuss chickens, factory farming, and what our appetite for cheap meat asks us to ignore. Watch the full conversation, “Is Eating Animals (Always) Wrong?”, on YouTube. Videos: @weanimals.bsky.social
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 14/09/2026
"Capitalism is still the most productive economic system that ever existed", The Guardian, 2026. #PeterSinger #Capitalism #EconomicJustice #Ethics #Philosophy
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 12/09/2026
In this excerpt from my conversation with @richroll.bsky.social, we discuss the ethics of radically extending human life. Watch the full conversation on The Rich Roll Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQb... #PeterSinger #RichRoll #Longevity #ClimateChange #Philosophy
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 11/09/2026
For the August/September issue of Forbes Australia, I was invited to answer The Last Word, a series of questions that range from the serious to the personal. Thank you to Forbes Australia and Sarah O’Carroll for the feature. #PeterSinger #ForbesAustralia #Philosophy #Ethics #EffectiveAltruism
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Lives Well Lived: I hop on Peter Singer's podcast, co-hosted with Kasia de Lazari Radek. Rarely has a single podcast episode divided its time so effectively between quantum mechanics and the objectivity of morality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OI...
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The Multiverse with SEAN CARROLL
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 11/09/2026
I was surprised and rather amused to discover that the BBC now considers me part of history. Listen to the full Witness History episode on BBC 🎧 www.bbc.com/audio/play/w... #PeterSinger #EffectiveAltruism #Philosophy #Ethics #BBCHistory
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BBC Audio | Witness History | Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment
In 1972, Peter Singer published one of the most influential ideas in modern philosophy
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 08/09/2026
Do we need God in order to have objective reasons for acting morally? I discussed this question with Christian thinker Andy Bannister in a wide-ranging debate about ethics, religion and what gives human life value. Watch the full debate, “Do we need God to be good?”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiM8...
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 05/09/2026
In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with Ryan Holiday, the best-selling author of several books on Stoicism, about why that philosophy still resonates today, how to respond to adversity, and what remembering that we will die can teach us about presence and gratitude. #Stoicism #Podcast
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 22/08/2026
In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with @michaelpollan.bsky.social about food and ultra-processed diets, psychedelics and altered states of consciousness, plant sentience, the mystery of consciousness, and whether AI could ever become conscious. Listen to the full conversation 🎧
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 21/08/2026
Monkeys are imported into the U.S. to be used in experiments. We have a chance to stop this. If you are in the U.S., please tell your representative to support the PRIMATE Act. @peta.org has made it easy to act: support.peta.org/page/96444/a... #primates #animalwelfare #petition
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 10/08/2026
In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with physicist and philosopher @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the mystery of consciousness, whether morality is constructed, and how we create meaning in a universe without an objective purpose.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 31/07/2026
“Living and Dying with Peter Singer,” Psychology Today, 1999. #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #Empathy #Indifference
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 30/07/2026
In this special episode of Lives Well Lived, I am the guest on my own show. Recorded shortly after my 80th birthday, Kasia and I discuss how my ideas have changed, whether philosophy can help us live better, and what moral progress requires from us now. 🎧 Listen to the full episode, link in bio.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 27/07/2026
Seven chimpanzees are confined at the roadside zoo in Michigan. @nonhumanrights.bsky.social is calling for them to be transferred to an accredited sanctuary. Sign the petition calling for the freedom of the DeYoung Prisoners: action.nonhumanrights.org/a/dfz-petition
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Petition to free the DeYoung Family Zoo chimpanzees to a sanctuary
Sign the petition to free the DeYoung Family Zoo chimpanzees to a sanctuary. #FreeTheDeYoungPrisoners
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 24/07/2026
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“KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Free
Seven chimpanzees are confined in a Michigan roadside zoo. One state Supreme Court Justice says the law should reconsider whether they have a right to freedom.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 23/07/2026
“The Singer Solution to World Poverty” from Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2016). #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #EffectiveGiving #EffectiveAltruism
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 21/07/2026
From The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (Princeton University Press, 2011). #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #Patriotism #Patriot
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 16/07/2026
My new article is out on @projectsyndicate.bsky.social: “Judging the Enhanced Games”. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e... #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #EnhancedGames #Doping
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Judging the Enhanced Games
Peter Singer asks what can be learned from an athletic competition that permits the use of performance-boosting drugs.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 15/07/2026
From Practical Ethics, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1993), appendix, “On Being Silenced in Germany”. #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #FreeSpeech #FreePress
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 10/07/2026
Can social media make kindness, veganism, and animal advocacy more popular? In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we talk with Amy Aela. Listen to the full conversation 🎧 Link in bio. #PeterSinger #AmyAela #LivesWellLived #Podcast #Veganism
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 04/07/2026
A utilitarian philosopher and a Christian theologian debate about animals: One of us says animals matter because they suffer. The other says animals matter because they are God’s creatures. Listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #PeterSinger #AnimalWelfare #Debate
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Why do animals matter? - ABC listen
Do to a dog what we do to a factory-farmed pig, and you’d be arrested.  Do it to ten thousand pigs in a shed, and it’s breakfast.  Most of us say cruelty to animals is wrong.  And then most of us a...
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 01/07/2026
The latest issue of my Substack is out: When veterinarians fail animals. boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/when-veter... #PeterSinger #Substack #SaveOurBacon #AnimalWelfare
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When veterinarians fail animals
Why is America’s leading veterinary association supporting farmed animal suffering?
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 26/06/2026
What should we be allowed to buy and sell? In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with Nobel Prize-winning economist @alroth.bsky.social about kidney exchange, blood plasma, surrogacy, medical aid in dying, and the moral limits of markets. Link in bio.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 25/06/2026
What if doing good was built into the business model? To learn more about Profit for Good, and how businesses can commit part of their profits to doing the most good they can, read the full manifesto on profitforgood.com
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Profit for Good
An emerging alliance of business leaders who make their profit count by directing it to the world’s most urgent challenges.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 15/06/2026
Unhappy people support populist parties. How do they choose between far right and far left? In the latest episode of #LivesWellLived, we speak with John Helliwell, editor of the World Happiness Report since its beginning in 2012. #Populism #FarRight #FarLeft #Podcast
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 13/06/2026
The latest issue of my Substack is out: why freedom of speech still needs defending, in academia and beyond. boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/why-freedo... #PeterSinger #FreedomOfSpeech #Substack #CancelCulture #Philosophy
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Why freedom of speech still needs defending, in academia and beyond
We are not there yet.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 11/06/2026
Could plant-based and cultivated meat reduce climate change, antibiotic resistance, and pandemic risk? In the latest episode of #LivesWellLived, we speak with @brucefriedrich.bsky.social, founder of the @gfi.org and author of “Meat”.  #AltProtein #FactoryFarming #CultivatedMeat
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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Peter Singer welcomes Leo’s rejection of techno-utopianism but not his first encyclical’s human-centered moral framework.
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The Pope’s AI Vision and Its Limits
Peter Singer welcomes Leo’s rejection of techno-utopianism but not his first encyclical’s human-centered moral framework.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 03/06/2026
In a year of severe aid cuts, donors helped The Life You Can Save move more than $24M to high-impact charities — up 18% from 2024. When lives can be saved, and we know how to save them, failing to act is a choice. I’m inviting you to donate to The Life You Can Save today. www.thelifeyoucansave.org
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 02/06/2026
The U.S. meat industry wants to erase basic protections for farmed animals in the few states in which animals have these protections. @ASPCA has made it easy to oppose it here: secure.aspca.org/action/fsfp-... #FactoryFarming #AnimalWelfare #SaveOurBacon
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USA: Oppose New Attack on Animal-Protection Laws
The Food Security and Farm Protection Act is a dangerous bill that was just introduced in the U.S. Senate. Despite its new name, this bill is identical to the dangerous Ending Agricultural Trade Suppr...
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 27/05/2026
Should we be cautious optimists? How can we balance innovation with ethical considerations? In the latest episode of #LivesWellLived, we speak with @jamiemetzl.bsky.social — technology futurist and author of “Hacking Darwin”. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/l... #AI #Ethics #ClimateChange
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How converging science and AI could reshape humanity’s morality with JAMIE METZL
Podcast Episode · Lives Well Lived · 14 May · 1hr 7min
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 22/05/2026
Korean students often study my ideas in ethics class and entrance exams — so I thought I’d answer the most frequently asked questions. Part 1: poverty, animals, and why ethics matters. Part 2 (civil disobedience, factory farming, deepening your understanding) coming soon. #윤리 #공부 #고3 #입시
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 19/05/2026
How are we to live, in a world in which there is so much unnecessary suffering? Read this book. It may change your life. Available for free in various formats, including epub, pdf and kindle: magnusvinding.com/2026/05/05/c... #PeterSinger #BookRecs #BookRecommendation #Ethics #Purpose
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Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World
“Read this book. It may change your life.”— Peter Singer, author of Animal LiberationWhat if the point of self-improvement were not just to feel better or get ahead, but to become more capable of h…
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 18/05/2026
I recently sat down for an interview with Jack Symes to explore some of the most challenging ethical questions about our treatment of animals. Watch the full interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU-6... #PeterSinger #AnimalLiberation #AnimalEthics
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 15/05/2026
We are at a critical moment for #GlobalHealth. The Life You Can Save’s new Health Sector Report 2026–2028 shows that decades of progress against preventable death and disease are now at risk. www.thelifeyoucansave.org/research/sec...
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Health Sector Report 2026-2028
Read our 2026–2028 Health Sector Report to uncover key vulnerabilities and see where private donations can save the most lives.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 14/05/2026
The May 2026 issue of JCI is out now. It asks difficult questions about IQ research, trans identity, gender bias in science, and sex in sport. Controversial ideas should be examined openly, rigorously, and without fear. journalofcontroversialideas.org/volumes_issu... #OpenDebate #FreeSpeech #Ethics
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Volume 6, Issue 1 (May 2026)
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Why are so many on the left hostile to veganism and animal rights? For you Bsky dwellers, this question blew up last week on X after Billie Eilish made some comments on the matter. My thoughts here:
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 06/05/2026
How much of who we become is shaped by the stereotypes? In the latest episode of #LivesWellLived, we speak with Claude Steele about stereotype threat, whether there could be a grain of truth in popular stereotypes, and how trust can help bridge social divides. 🎧 Listen now — link in bio.
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 05/05/2026
We asked an #AI about #God. It wasn’t convinced. Claude cited the problem of evil and lack of evidence, and found utilitarianism more plausible. How should this affect believers? 🎧 Listen now — link in bio. #PeterSinger #AIEthics #Philosophy #Religion #Utilitarianism
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