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#66 - Peter Singer on being provocative, effective altruism, & how his moral views have changed

80,000 Hours Podcast - December 05, 2019 15:58 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 236 ratings
In 1989, the professor of moral philosophy Peter Singer was all over the news for his inflammatory opinions about abortion. But the controversy stemmed from Practical Ethics — a book he’d actually released way back in 1979. It took a German translation ten years on for protests to kick ...

Books written by Peter Singer

The Lives of Animals
J.M. Coetzee, Amy Gutmann, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger, Barbara Smuts, Marjorie Garber

1 Episode - 136 pages - ★★★★ - 1.83K ratings

The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity
Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer

312 pages - ★★★★ - 86 ratings