Peter Singer Under Fire

Author : Jeffrey A. Schaler
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812697698

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Peter Singer Under Fire by Jeffrey A. Schaler Pdf

One of the leading ethical thinkers of the modern age, Peter Singer has repeatedly been embroiled in controversy. Protesters in Germany closed down his lectures, mistakenly thinking he was advocating Nazi views on eugenics. Conservative publisher Steve Forbes withdrew generous donations to Princeton after Singer was appointed professor of bioethics. His belief that infanticide is sometimes morally justified has appalled people from all walks of life. Peter Singer Under Fire gives a platform to his critics on many contentious issues. Leaders of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet attack Singer’s views on disability and euthanasia. Economists criticize the effectiveness of his ideas for solving global poverty. Philosophers expose problems in Singer’s theory of utilitarianism and ethicists refute his position on abortion. Singer’s engaging “Intellectual Autobiography” explains how he came by his controversial views, while detailed replies to each critic reveal further surprising aspects of his unique outlook.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812981568

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The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer Pdf

Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139496896

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Practical Ethics by Peter Singer Pdf

For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live.

Author : Charles C. Camosy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521199155

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Peter Singer and Christian Ethics by Charles C. Camosy Pdf

This book explores a number of important issues to illuminate the common ground between Peter Singer and Christian ethics.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300128529

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One World by Peter Singer Pdf

Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191084393

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Does Anything Really Matter? by Peter Singer Pdf

In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, Parfit argues that if there are no objective normative truths, nihilism follows, and nothing matters. He criticizes, often forcefully, many leading contemporary philosophers working on the nature of ethics, including Simon Blackburn, Stephen Darwall, Allen Gibbard, Frank Jackson, Peter Railton, Mark Schroeder, Michael Smith, and Sharon Street. Does Anything Really Matter? gives these philosophers an opportunity to respond to Parfit's criticisms, and includes essays on Parfit's views by Richard Chappell, Andrew Huddleston, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, Bruce Russell, and Larry Temkin. A third volume of On What Matters, in which Parfit engages with his critics and breaks new ground in finding significant agreement between his own views and theirs, is appearing as a separate companion volume.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538123904

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Ethics into Action by Peter Singer Pdf

More than twenty years after its publication, Peter Singer's Ethics into Action continues to inspire new 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 and provides a path towards furthering changes in our world.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : HarperThorsons
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Animal industry
ISBN : 072250845X

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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer Pdf

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781742747781

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How Are We To Live? by Peter Singer Pdf

'Is there still anything to live for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love and caring for one's own family? . . . In this book I give one answer. It is as ancient as the dawn of philosophy, but as much needed in our circumstances today as it ever was before. The answer is that we can live an ethical life.' In How Are We to Live? Peter Singer suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often escape from the trap of meaninglessness, finding a deeper satisfaction in what they are doing than people whose goals are narrower and more self-centred. He spells out what he means by an ethical approach to life, and shows that it can bring about significant and far-reaching changes to our lives.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504005081

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Pushing Time Away by Peter Singer Pdf

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, from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of his life in a concentration camp during the Second World War. Oppenheim, a Jewish teacher of Greek and Latin living in Vienna, was a contemporary and friend of both Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. With his wife, Amalie, one of the first women to graduate in math and physics from the University of Vienna, he witnessed the waning days of the Hapsburg Empire, the nascence of psychoanalysis, the grueling years of the First World War, and the rise of anti-Semitism and Nazism. Told partly through Oppenheim’s personal papers, including letters to and from his wife and children, Pushing Time Away blends history, anecdote, and personal investigation to pull the story of one extraordinary life out of the millions lost to the Holocaust. A contemporary philosopher known for such works as The Life You Can Save and Animal Liberation, Singer offers a true story of his own family with “all the power of a great novel . . . resonant of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink or An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro” (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400888733

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Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer Pdf

Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher 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 movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news. In addition, he explores, in an easily accessible form, some of the deepest philosophical questions, such as whether anything really matters and what is the value of the pale blue dot that is our planet. The collection also includes some more personal reflections, like Singer’s thoughts on one of his favorite activities, surfing, and an unusual suggestion for starting a family conversation over a holiday feast. Now with a new afterword by the author, this provocative and original book will challenge—and possibly change—your beliefs about many real-world ethical questions.

Author : P. W. Singer,August Cole
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328637239

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Burn-in by P. W. Singer,August Cole Pdf

"An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping technothriller-and fact-based tour of tomorrow-from the authors of Ghost Fleet"--

Author : Judith Benz-Schwarzburg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004415072

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Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers? Linking Animal Cognition, Animal Ethics & Animal Welfare by Judith Benz-Schwarzburg Pdf

In Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers?, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg reveals the scope and relevance of cognitive kinship between humans and non-human animals. She presents a wide range of empirical studies on culture, language and theory of mind in animals and then leads us to ask why such complex socio-cognitive abilities in animals matter. Her focus is on ethical theory as well as on the practical ways in which we use animals. Are great apes maybe better described as non-human persons? Should we really use dolphins as entertainers or therapists? Benz-Schwarzburg demonstrates how much we know already about animals’ capabilities and needs and how this knowledge should inform the ways in which we treat animals in captivity and in the wild.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781497645585

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Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer Pdf

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 age. His reputation, built largely on isolated incendiary quotations and outrage-of-the-moment news coverage, has preceded him ever since. Aiming to present a more accurate and thoughtful picture of Singer’s pioneering work, Writings on an Ethical Life features twenty-seven excerpts from some of his most lauded and controversial essays and books. The reflections on life, death, murder, vegetarianism, poverty, and ethical living found in these pages come together in a must-read collection for anyone seeking a better understanding of the issues that shape our world today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0312144016

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Rethinking Life and Death by Peter Singer Pdf

In a reassessment of the meaning of life and death, a noted philosopher offers a new definition for life that contrasts a world dependent on biological maintenance with one controlled by state-of-the-art medical technology.