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	Peter Singer - Advocacy For Animals
		Peter Singer, whose book Animal Liberation galvanized the animal rights movement in 1975, is unique among contemporary philosophers for the direct, immediate, and powerful influence his ideas have had on the world around him.
		Singer’s work in applied ethics and his activism in politics were informed by his utilitarianism, the tradition in ethical philosophy that holds that actions are right or wrong depending on the extent to which they promote happiness or prevent pain.
		The most important philosophical contribution of the book was Singer’s clear articulation of the concept of “speciesism”; (which he did not invent): the rationally unsupported idea that the species of a being should be relevant to its moral status, just as race and sex should be relevant to the moral status of a human being.
	advocacy.britannica.com /blog/advocacy/2007/01/peter-singer (1384 words)

	Tom Regans - Peter Singer - dyreforsøg 1
		Peter Singer ser derimod sådan på det (i sit senere forfatterskab), at et drab kan retfærdiggøres, hvis der sørges for, at der kommer et nyt individ til verden, hvorved det hele går lige O-P op.
		Regan og Singer er begge vegetarer; Regan fordi han mener, at det er hans pligt at respektere dyrenes integritet og Singer fordi han ikke mener, at menneskets gevinst står i noget rimeligt forhold til dyrenes lidelser i landbruget af i dag.
		For Peter Singer er det derimod et åbent spørgsmål, om det kan tillades; det kommer igen an på dels jægernes glæde ved at jage og især om de dræbte dyrs tab overdøves af de "frelste" dyrs gevinst.
	www.forsoegsdyrenes-vaern.dk /text/thomsen1.html (2176 words)

	One World - Peter Singer
		Singer begins with the marvelous example of the flood of aid given to the families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 -- despite the fact that many of these families were already well provided for by insurance, pension rights, and other safety nets.
		Singer argues that we have similar opportunities to save children's lives: donating 200 dollars is like throwing the switch, since we lose something of value (200 dollars) but save a life.
		Singer's arguments are largely ethical, and therein lies one of the problems: ethics aren't always obvious and self-evident, and no matter how much is made mention of starving and diseased peoples who could be fairly easily helped, if they are far, far away people will always find more immediate concerns.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/divphil/singerp1.htm (2513 words)

	EPM Resource - Response To Peter Singer's Ethics
		Peter Singer is a fascinating man wielding an extraordinary influence on college students and academics.
		Peter Singer, the Princeton professor, wrote in his ethics textbook, "The life of a fetus is of no greater value than the life of a nonhuman animal at a similar level of rationality, self-consciousness, awareness, capacity to feel, etc."
		Singer also suggests that individual human worth is based on nothing more than its usefulness to others: "When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed.
	www.epm.org /articles/singers_ethics.html (740 words)

	"Peter Singer's Solution to World Poverty," New York Times Sunday Magazine
		The Australian philosopher Peter Singer, who later this month begins teaching at Princeton University, is perhaps the world's most controversial ethicist.
		Singer's penchant for provocation extends to more mundane matters, like everyday charity.
		When Bob first grasped the dilemma that faced him as he stood by that railway switch, he must have thought how extraordinarily unlucky he was to be placed in a situation in which he must choose between the life of an innocent child and the sacrifice of most of his savings.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/singermag.html (2642 words)

	Reason Magazine - The Pursuit of Happiness, Peter Singer interviewed by Ronald Bailey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Singer's mother suffers from severe Alzheimer's disease, and so she no longer qualifies as a person by his own standards, yet he spends considerable sums on her care.
		Singer: There's at least an argument to say that the opportunity to give altruistically is something that fosters a sense of community, a sense of community ties.
		Singer: Well, they may be wrong, but if they're going to suffer acutely for a long time over it, it's unlikely I think that the suffering of the child is going to be so great and so impossible to relieve that it will outweigh that.
	www.reason.com /0012/rb.the.shtml (5355 words)

	Amazon.ca: Writings on an Ethical Life: Books: Peter Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter Singer's arguments have penetrating moral accountability that can be quite unnerving to the reader who is expecting an afternoon on the couch with a cup of coffee and a book.
		Singer begins from the premise that "the whole point of ethical judgments is to guide practice," which may not seem very remarkable nowadays, but in its day was virtually anathema to academic ethicists, who preferred abstract theorizing to practical moral reasoning.
		Singer is not really clear on whether subjecting a pig, for instance, to what amounts (at least to the pig) to torture is nonetheless justified to ease human suffering.
	www.amazon.ca /Writings-Ethical-Life-Peter-Singer/dp/0060007443 (2567 words)

	TheVegetarianSite.com: Philosophy: Peter Singer
		Peter Singer's approach to animal liberation does not presume that animals have inherent rights, but rather that the interests of animals should be given their due consideration.
		Singer argues that, even among humans, the concept of equality is not that of an actual equality of attributes.
		Singer uses racism and sexism as examples of why it is wrong to promote the interests of one group over another simply because the perpetrator is a member of the favored group.
	www.thevegetariansite.com /ethics_singer.htm (724 words)

	7.30 Report - 22/05/2006: Philosopher Peter Singer spoke with Kerry OBrien
		Peter Singer will appear at the Sydney Writers' Festival later this week, but he was in Melbourne when I spoke with him today.
		PROFESSOR PETER SINGER, ETHICIST: Well, one thing that's changed for the better is people are much more aware of the issues and of thinking about where their food comes from, for example.
		PROFESSOR PETER SINGER: I think that a lot of people have some vague knowledge of it and sometimes they actually don't want to know too much more because they think it's going to make them uncomfortable about where their food comes from, but there is certainly greater knowledge of it.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2006/s1644683.htm (1631 words)

	Jewish Law - Commentary/Opinion - Bless Peter Singer
		Singer, of course, is the Princeton philosopher who has become well-known for his advocacy of euthanasia for severely handicapped infants and elderly and, most recently, for endorsing the idea of meaningful human intimate relations with animals - what Slate writer William Saletan deems "the love that dare not bark its name."
		Professor Singer, who heads the university's improbably named Center for Human Values, made his case in a recent essay where he suggests that there is no inherent difference between humans and animals, and characterizes the latter as essentially the moral equivalent of human infants.
		Singer's gift to us is his - intentional or not - forcing of those issues, his identification of the crux of the matter: morality.
	www.jlaw.com /Commentary/blesspeter.html (548 words)

	michael specter--title
		Singer's philosophy is a contempo-rary version of utilitarianism, and its basic intellectual weaponry rests on a simple thought crafted by Jeremy Bentham, in the nineteenth century: all sentient creatures have an interest in avoiding pain.
		Singer has been prevented from speaking at conferences in Germany, in Austria, and even in Switzerland, where he was once assaulted by people who saw in his philosophy an echo of the Nazi view that some lives are worth living and others are not.
		Singer feels that this is unfair, and he may have a point: although he fails to live up to the rigid rules he has put down on paper, he probably comes as close to doing so as anyone could.
	www.michaelspecter.com /ny/1999/1999_09_06_philosopher.html (6652 words)

	Institute for Social Ecology - Peter Singer and Eugenics
		Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher who is best known for his book Animal Liberation.
		Singer quotes, entirely approvingly, the grandmother of a Down syndrome child: "Had the poor little mongol been allowed to die, as he so easily could, my daughter might have had one or two healthy children in his place" (p.
		Singer's stance is understandably distressing to those disabled adults who think they're quite capable of leading full human lives even if they don't fulfill some mythical and arbitrary definition of perfect humanness.
	www.social-ecology.org /article.php?story=20031202122825648 (1686 words)

	Butterflies and Wheels Article
		Peter Singer looks a very tired man. It’s not so much the early morning start of the interview, but the weeks of media scrutiny, misrepresentation and criticism, which seem to have taken their toll.
		Singer is a preference utilitarian, which means he thinks the morally right action is that which has the consequences of satisfying the preferences of the greatest number of people.
		Singer is always going to be a controversial thinker because of his willingness to confront political and ethical issues without being constrained by current orthodoxy.
	www.butterfliesandwheels.com /articleprint.php?num=11 (3245 words)

	Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach-Blog: Peter Singer Supports Vivisection: Why Are You Surprised?
		Singer’s message is clear: it may be preferable to be a vegan or vegetarian because of the abuses of factory farming.
		Singer not only finds no inherent problem with eating animals and animal products, but he also sees no problem with having sexual contact with nonhumans—again, as long as we act “humanely.” In a soft-core porn site, Nerve.com, Our Father tells us: “But sex with animals does not always involve cruelty.
		In the Satya interview, Singer says in response to a question about the response to The Way We Eat: “I’ve been pleased that people who are vegan themselves, and are involved in some of the major animal rights organizations, have been strongly in support of it.
	garyfrancione.blogspot.com /2006/11/peter-singer-supports-vivisection-why.html (1286 words)

	What's Love Got to Do With It? The Ethical Contradictions of Peter Singer, by Peter J. Colosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter Singer, a tenured professor of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, is one of the world's most famous and influential philosophers.
		Singer's mother had reached a point in her life where she no longer recognized Singer, his sister, or her grandchildren, and she had lost the ability to reason.
		Peter Singer, a tenured professor of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, is one of the world's most famous and influential philosophers.You're confusing being published with being influential.
	www.godspy.com /issues/WHATS-LOVE-GOT-TO-DO-WITH-IT-The-Ethical-Contradictions-of-Peter-Singer-by-Dr-Peter-J-Colosi.cfm (3554 words)

	Hatrack River Forum: Story of Peter Singer and Me - Updated, New and Improved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter Singer, over the years, has repeatedly made the case that certain members of society should be denied the same civil rights that everyone else enjoys.
		Singer can try to redefine such things all he likes, but none of this redefining personhood stuff will be consistent with the Constitution unless a pretty severe amendment is passed.
		Singer and his fellow bioethicists are very happy to have the debate on policy dominated by a small range of people in the professional class - themselves.
	www.hatrack.com /ubb/main/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=021054;p=3 (6090 words)

	Peter Singer: Monkey business - Independent Online Edition > Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For three decades, Peter Singer's views on such issues as animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, infanticide and how to tackle world poverty, have led him to be lauded and condemned to an extent that sets him apart from most academic thinkers.
		Peter Albert David Singer was born in Melbourne on 6 July 1946, a birth date he shares with President Bush, whose pronouncements Singer has excoriated in his 2004 book The President of Good and Evil, which sets out to examine the ethical standards and consistency of the man in the White House.
		Singer, whose philosophy owes much to the utilitarian school, argued against what he saw as the "speciesism" - a term coined by a colleague - that holds animals as of lesser worth than humans.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article2035119.ece (1195 words)

	Amazon.com: Writings on an Ethical Life: Books: Peter Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter Singer's arguments have penetrating moral accountability that can be quite unnerving to the reader who is expecting an afternoon on the couch with a cup of coffee and a book.
		Singer begins from the premise that "the whole point of ethical judgments is to guide practice," which may not seem very remarkable nowadays, but in its day was virtually anathema to academic ethicists, who preferred abstract theorizing to practical moral reasoning.
		Singer is not a monster, and though some of his ideas are disturbingly cold and mechanical, the majority of his ideas, and his philosophy as a whole, are deeply humane.
	www.amazon.com /Writings-Ethical-Life-Peter-Singer/dp/0060007443 (1828 words)

	AR.net >> Wall Street Journal attacks animal rights advocate Peter Singer
		Singer was recently offered The Ira W. DeCamp Professorship of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values, which led the Wall Street Journal to attack Singer and Princeton in a September 25 editorial by Naomi Schaefer and in an unsigned October 2 opinion piece in the Journal's weekend section.
		Singer has written that "killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person." And Singer doesn’t restrict his killing impulses to just severely retarded and disabled infants.
		Singer tries to pass off this astounding conclusion in pseudo-intellectual drivel, writing that society "would have to accept in some cases that it would be right to kill a person who does not choose to die on the grounds that the person will otherwise lead a miserable life."
	www.animalrights.net /archives/year/1998/000062.html (528 words)

	The Chronicle: Research & Publishing: March 10, 2000
		Singer, is the result of a "fig leaf" obscuring the truths of life and death.
		Singer is a stalwart of the analytic camp.
		Singer's work, but many of his opponents seem to assume that if there were an almighty there, it'd be an angry one: Follow the rules or else.
	www.chronicle.com /free/v46/i27/27a00101.htm (3640 words)

	Peter Singer: Architect of the Culture of Death
		Singer deplores the fact that we cruelly and unconscionably oppress and misuse non-human animals by eating their flesh and experimenting on them.
		Singer, by trying to be more broadminded than is reasonable, has created a philosophy that actually dehumanizes people, reducing them to points of consciousness that are indistinguishable from those of many non-human animals.
		Singer has a point, though perhaps marginal at best, that all other things being equal, it is better to be more happy than to be less happy.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/medical_ethics/me0049.html (3023 words)

	FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Anderson: Peter Singer’s Animals
		And since Singer, interestingly, is willing to admit that infanticide can be justified on certain occasions, then the killing of animals can be justified as well—which is what’s gotten him in hot water with the animal-rights folk.
		Singer’s failure to recognize this common experience of the human difference—combined with his utilitarian mode of moral reasoning—means, finally, that he cannot defend the idea of human rights.
		Peter Singer has always admitted this, more or less, but it comes as a shock to the animal-rights activists who used to admire him so.
	www.firstthings.com /onthesquare/?p=565 (480 words)

	Princeton - PWB 120798 - The Appointment of Professor Peter Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In strongly recommending and endorsing Professor Singer's appointment at Princeton, our own faculty members have made it clear that while they may disagree with him on some issues, just as my colleagues in Economics may differ on issues of economic policy, they have deep respect for his scholarship and invariably find his work instructive.
		But the test in making any faculty appointment is not whether we agree with the findings of a professor's scholarship; the test is the power of the professor's intellect and the quality of his or her scholarship and teaching.
		For these reasons we are delighted that Professor Singer will join the Princeton faculty next year and we eagerly await his contributions to our better understanding of the complex ethical questions that surround some of the most difficult issues of our times.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/pwb/98/1207/singer.htm (854 words)

	Metapsychology Online Reviews - Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Part of Singer’s project is to undermine our traditional ethical instincts, and one tactic he has used to do this is to show how our ethical instincts are accidental products of natural selection and the vicissitudes of human history.
		Singer’s mistake here is the inverse of the fallacy of the old social Darwinists, who assumed that because competition is natural it must be good.
		Singer is not denying the moral worth of people on the basis of their race, creed, or gender.
	www.mentalhelp.net /books/books.php?type=de&id=1257 (2087 words)

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