Philosophy Bites Podcast Episodes featuring Peter Singer

Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Philosophy Bites - April 29, 2012 07:39 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
How should doctors, patients and family make end of life decisions? Peter Singer explores questions about euthanasia, abortion and autonomy in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this bonus episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast (originally released on Bioethics Bites). This episode was made a...

Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

Philosophy Bites - July 17, 2011 16:39 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
Henry Sidgwick, who died in 1900, is something of a philosophers' philosopher. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Peter Singer explains why he thinks this late Victorian Englishman is so important for the utilitarian tradition and why is ideas continue to have relevance. Philosophy ...

Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save

Philosophy Bites - August 15, 2010 13:03 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
If you saw a child drowning in a shallow pond would you save that child? If you would, why don't you give the small amount of money necessary to save a child from starvation or disease in parts of Africa? Peter Singer argues that the differences between the two cases are not as great as they fir...

Peter Singer on Human Use of Animals

Philosophy Bites - May 08, 2008 09:48 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
In this bonus episode produced in association with the Open University as part of the Ethics Bites series, Peter Singer, perhaps the world's best known living philosopher, discusses how we treat animals. A transcript of this episode is available from www.open2.net/ethicsbites/