“Living and Dying with Peter Singer,” Psychology Today, 1999. #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #Empathy #Indifference
Peter Singer
@petersinger.info
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.
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.
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
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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“The Singer Solution to World Poverty” from Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2016). #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #EffectiveGiving #EffectiveAltruism
From The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (Princeton University Press, 2011). #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #Patriotism #Patriot
My new article is out on @projectsyndicate.bsky.social: “Judging the Enhanced Games”. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e... #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #EnhancedGames #Doping
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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From Practical Ethics, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1993), appendix, “On Being Silenced in Germany”. #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #FreeSpeech #FreePress
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
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
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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The latest issue of my Substack is out: When veterinarians fail animals. boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/when-veter... #PeterSinger #Substack #SaveOurBacon #AnimalWelfare
When veterinarians fail animals
Why is America’s leading veterinary association supporting farmed animal suffering?
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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.
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
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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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
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
Why freedom of speech still needs defending, in academia and beyond
We are not there yet.
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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
Peter Singer welcomes Leo’s rejection of techno-utopianism but not his first encyclical’s human-centered moral framework.
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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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
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
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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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
How converging science and AI could reshape humanity’s morality with JAMIE METZL
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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
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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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
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...
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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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
Volume 6, Issue 1 (May 2026)
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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:
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.
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
Speaking with young people is important because many of their key ethical decisions are still ahead of them. Thank you to Sungkyunkwan University for inviting me to share my thoughts on what it takes to live an ethical life. #PeterSinger #Philosophy #Ethics
Given that Socrates is no longer an option, I asked the AI oracles who was the wisest non-religious person alive today. Gemini listed @petersinger.info first, which would have been my pick too. It then followed with Nussbaum, Chomsky, Pinker, Harari and Atwood.