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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

For the first time in history, it is within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. A billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for a bottle of water. Nearly ten million children die each year from poverty-related causes. Our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ...

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Practical Ethics

Practical Ethics more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography. He has also added an appendix ...

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One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition

One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Preface by)

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 globalisation. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and consider what a global ethic could mean in today's ...

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The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer, Jim Mason

Ethicist Singer and co-author Mason ("Animal Factories") document corporate deception, widespread waste and desensitization to inhumane practices in this consideration of ethical eating. The authors examine three families' grocery-buying habits and the motivations behind those choices. One woman says she's "absorbed in my life and my family...and ...

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Ethics

Ethics more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Editor)

This book is not a conventional reader in moral philosophy. To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, history, observation of non-human animals, the theory of evolution, game theory, and works of fiction, in addition to moral philosophy. By choosing some of the finest ...

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Animal Liberation

Animal Liberation more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

Originally published in 1975, this ethical work defending animals as sentient beings and therefore due certain rights, jumpstarted Singer's notoriety as a polemical philosopher.

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Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In "Animal Liberation," author Peter Singer exposes the ...

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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer, Jim Mason

The acclaimed team behind "Animal Factories" reunite for this groundbreaking exploration of where today's food comes from, how it's produced, and whether it has been raised humanely, and study the impact food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment.

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A Companion to Ethics

A Companion to Ethics more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Editor)

In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end: yet the inclusion of a ...

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Writings on an ethical life

Writings on an ethical life more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

"Peter Singer is the most influential living philosopher. We need people like him to keep us honest, make us think and help us to be better than we presently are," The Independent. A passionate founder of the modern animal rights movement, Singer challenges our most closely held beliefs about infanticide, euthanasia, the legal rights and moral ...

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Oxford Readings in Philosophy more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Photographer)

These essays have been selected for the quality of their contribution to a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including nuclear war and world famine, abortion and euthanasia, human equality, and the moral status of animals.

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One World: The Ethics of Globalization more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

Known for his 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 what a global ethic could mean in today's world. Singer raises ...

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The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

A controversial professor of ethics takes the words of George W. Bush seriously and puts his spotlight on Bush's claims to be a president who knows what is good and what is evil.

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Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

Offers a new definition for life that contrasts a world dependent on biological maintenance with one controlled by state-of-the-art medical technology.

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The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Editor), Renata Singer (Editor)

In "The Moral of the Story", Peter and Renata Singer draw on some of the best works of fiction, playwriting, and poetry in order to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics. A vivid montage of literature that touches on a broad range of ethical subjects and themes, this work: offers a unique contribution to the study of moral philosophy and ...

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A Companion to Bioethics more books like this

by Helga Kuhse, Professor Peter Singer

This volume contains all that the beginning reader or student needs to soundly grasp the ideas and issues involved in the field. Building on the model used by Peter Singer in his highly successful Companion to Ethics, the Companion to Bioethics consists of 46 specially written essays designed to present the key issues and concepts in bioethics in ...

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How are we to live? more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

This assessment of human nature and society suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often escape from the trap of meaninglessness so prevalent in modern society, finding instead a deeper satisfaction in what they do than those whose goals are narrower and more self-centred. In spelling out what he means by an ethical approach to ...

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Hegel: A Very Short Introduction more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works.

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Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

PUSHING TIME AWAY is Peter Singer's biography of his grandfather, an obscure classical scholar named David Oppenheim. As a young man in Vienna, Oppenheim, a teacher, was a friend and collaborator of Freud. When he returned from service in World War I, he was a different man--shellshocked, burned out, and disillusioned. He turned inward, took ...

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In Defense of Animals more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Editor)

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Marx: A Very Short Introduction more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, ...

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Animal Philosophy more books like this

by Matthew Calarco (Editor), Peter Atterton (Editor), Professor Peter Singer (Foreword by)

Animal Philosophy is the first reader to look at the place and treatment of animals in Continental thought. A collection of essential primary and secondary readings on the animal question, it brings together contributions from the following key Continental thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, ...

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The President of Good & Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

More than any president in recent memory, George W. Bush invokes the languageof good versus evil and right versus wrong. Controversial professor of ethicsSinger has put his spotlight on President Bush's moral claims.

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Embryo Experimentation more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Editor), Helga Kuhse (Editor), Stephen Buckle (Editor)

New developments in reproductive technology have made headlines since the birth of the world's first in vitro fertilization baby in 1978. But is embryo experimentation ethically acceptable? What is the moral status of the early human embryo? And how should a democratic society deal with so controversial an issue, where conflicting views are based ...

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In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer (Editor)

Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, "In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave" highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. This book contains an exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published "In ...

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