The internationally renowned Australian philosopher Peter Albert David Singer (born 1946) is best known for his book Animal Liberation. However, he also made important contributions in theoretical ethics and in other areas of applied ethics. Peter...

Singer, Peter(1946–) Peter Singer is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. While other philosophers have been more important in the development of the discipline, none has changed more lives. Newsweek magazine...

Philosopher and leading advocate of the animal liberation movement, Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia. While teaching at Oxford University in England, Singer encountered a group of people who were vegetarians not because of any personal distaste...

For other persons named Peter Singer, see Peter Singer (disambiguation). Published in 1975, Animal Liberation[3] was a major formative influence on the animal liberation movement. Although Singer rejects rights as a moral ideal independent from his...

Animal rights campaigners fighting a proposal to shoot more than 3,000 kangaroos outside the capital claimed a partial victory Thursday when an official revealed that alternatives on dealing with the burgeoning population were also being considered.The Defense Department plans to hire professional shooters to cull...

Under pressure to exercise greater control over private security contractors in Iraq, Bush administration officials outlined stricter rules for these armed guards during a three-hour meeting Wednesday at the Pentagon with 20 companies.The top executives from the largest security firms working in Iraq attended the...

The fog of war keeps getting thicker. The Iraqi government's decision to temporarily ban the security company Blackwater USA after a fatal shooting of civilians in Baghdad reveals a growing web of rules governing weapons-bearing private contractors but few signs U.S. agencies are aggressively enforcing...

When the Pentagon's research arm first called for innovators to design and race a self-driving car to make warfare safer, a ragtag bunch of garage tinkerers, computer geeks and even high school students answered.No one won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's inaugural contest in...

In his article "The Singer Solution to World Poverty," Peter Singer suggests that those who are prosperous should take the money they would otherwise spend on luxury items and instead donate it to help needy people overseas. However, Singer's argument overlooks many factors and leaves too many questions unanswered.