Peter Singer: 30 books
Ethics in the Real World
82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do to those...
Pushing Time Away
My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This account of a teacher in Austria—a friend of Freud and one of the millions of victims of the Holocaust—is “beautifully written and deeply moving” (Joyce Carol Oates).
Peter Singer’s Pushing Time Away is a rich and loving portrait of the author’s grandfather, David Oppenheim,...
Animal Liberation
The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The groundbreaking and “important” book about animal rights by the author of Ethics in the Real World—including a new preface (Chicago Tribune).
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world’s philosophical and animal-protection circles...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our time
Since bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Known for his original and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalization. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and consider...
One World Now
The Ethics of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization,...
The President of Good & Evil
Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
From the author of Animal Liberation, an examination of the chasm between the words and actions of George W. Bush, who claimed the moral high ground more than any president in recent US history
During his time in public office, George W. Bush framed a striking number of his major policies and...
The Most Good You Can Do
How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Peter Singer’s books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly...
by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are seen as inviolable. Would it, for example, be right...
The Ethics of What We Eat
Why Our Food Choices Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it...
The Expanding Circle
Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival,...
Ethics into Action
Learning from a Tube of Toothpaste
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
More than twenty years after its publication, Peter Singer's Ethics into Action continues to inspire new generations of activists through its portrayal of Henry Spira and the animal rights movement. With a new preface from the author, this edition celebrates the continued importance of social movements...