Peter Singer

**Peter Albert David Singer**, nado en Melbourne o 6 de xullo de 1946, é un filósofo utilitarista australiano. Profesor de dereito e máis tarde de filosofía na Universidade de Monash (Melbourne).

Tras facer os seus estudos iniciais en Australia, na Universidade de Oxford tomou contacto co utilitarismo ético mediante a lectura de autores en lingua inglesa, como Jeremy Bentham e John Stuart Mill. Alí participou en protestas contra a guerra de Vietnam, e tamén ten lugar a súa «conversión» ao vexetarianismo, por influencia dalgúns estudantes, que lle espertaron o interese pola ética aplicada aos animais, o trato ético aos animais, o aborto, a eutanasia, a pobreza, a distribución de ingresos ou a educación.

## Traxectoria
Peter Singer naceu en Melbourne (Victoria) o 6 de xullo de 1946. Os seus pais eran vieneses xudeus que fuxiron a Australia en 1938 para escapar da anexión de Austria por Alemaña. Os seus avós non foron tan afortunados: os paternos foron levados a Łódź polos nazis, onde se perde os seus rastro. O seu avó materno morreu en Theresiendstadt.

O pai de Singer era importador de té e café, mentres a súa nai era médica. Asistiu ao Colexio Escocés. Despois estudou leis, historia e filosofía na Universidade de  Melbourne, obtivo o grao académico en 1967. En 1969 recibiu un  MA (mestría en artes) pola súa tese titulada *Por que debería eu ser moral?*

Gañou unha bolsa para estudar na Universidade de Oxford, obtendo o bacharelato en Filosofía en 1971 cunha tese sobre a desobediencia civil, supervisada por R. M. Hare, e posteriormente, publicada como libro en 1973 (*Democracy and Desobedience*, 1973). Despois de ser lector (fellow) na Universidade de Oxford, foi profesor visitante na Universidade de Nova York por 16 meses. Volveu a Melbourne en 1977, onde exerceu por maior tempo a súa carreira. Traballou na Universidade de Monash e en institucións ligadas a ela, e en 1999 obtivo a cátedra DeCamp de bioética no Center of Human Values da Universidade de Princeton, nos EUA. Desde 1993 é líder da plataforma animalista Proxecto Gran Simio, e autor do libro do mesmo título xunto coa pensadora italiana Paola Cavalieri.

## Publicacións 
* *Liberación Animal*. Taurus, Madrid, 2011.
* *What Should a Billionaire Give — and What Should You*, The New York Times, 2006
* *Democracy and Disobedience*, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973; Oxford University Press, Nova York, 1974; Gregg Revivals, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1994
* *Animal Rights and Human Obligations: An Anthology* (co-editor with Thomas Regan), Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1976. 2nd revised edition, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1989
* *Ética práctica*, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. ISBN 0-521-22920-0 0521297206
* *Marx*, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980; Hill & Wang, Nova York, 1980; reissued as*Marx: A Very Short Introduction*, Oxford University Press, 2000; also included in full in K. Thomas (ed.), *Great Political Thinkers: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Mill and Marx*, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992
* *Animal Factories* (co-author with James Mason), Crown, Nova York, 1980
* *The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology*, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nova York, 1981; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981; New American Library, Nova York, 1982. ISBN 0-19-283038-4
* *Hegel*, Oxford University Press, Oxford e Nova York, 1982; reissued as *Hegel: A Very Short Introduction*, Oxford University Press, 2001; also included in full in *German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche*, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997
* *Test-Tube Babies: a guide to moral questions, present techniques, and future possibilities*(co-edited with William Walters), Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1982
* *The Reproduction Revolution: New Ways of Making Babies* (co-author with Deane Wells), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984. revised American edition, *Making Babies*, Scribner's New York, 1985
* *Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants* (co-author with Helga Kuhse), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985; Oxford University Press, Nova York, 1986; Gregg Revivals, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1994. ISBN 0-19-217745-1
* *In Defence of Animals* (ed.), Blackwells, Oxford, 1985; Harper & Row, Nova York, 1986. ISBN 0-631-13897-8
* *Ethical and Legal Issues in Guardianship Options for Intellectually Disadvantaged People*(co-author with Terry Carney), Human Rights Commission Monograph Series, no. 2, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1986
* *Applied Ethics* (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986
* *Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide* (co-author with Lori Gruen), Camden Press, Londres, 1987
* *Embryo Experimentation* (co-editor with Helga Kuhse, Stephen Buckle, Karen Dawson and Pascal Kasimba), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; paperback edition, updated, 1993
* *A Companion to Ethics* (ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991; paperback edition, 1993
* *Save the Animals!* (Australian edition, co-author with Barbara Dover and Ingrid Newkirk), Collins Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, NSW, 1991
* *El proyecto gran simio: la igualdad más allá de la humanidad* (co-editado con Paola Cavalieri), Madrid, Trotta, 1998.
* *How Are We to Live? Ethics in an Age of Self-interest*, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1993; Mandarin, Londres, 1995; Prometheus, Buffalo, NY, 1995; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997
* *Ethics* (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994
* *Individuals, Humans and Persons: Questions of Life and Death* (co-author with Helga Kuhse), Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 1994
* *Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics*, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1994; St Martin's Press, Nova York, 1995; reprint 2008. ISBN 0-312-11880-5Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995
* *The Greens* (co-author with Bob Brown), Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1996
* *The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the "QALY" Approach* (co-author with John McKie, Jeff Richardson and Helga Kuhse), Ashgate/Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1998
* *A Companion to Bioethics* (co-editor with Helga Kuhse), Blackwell, Oxford, 1998
* *Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement*, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 1998; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1999
* *Bioethics. An Anthology* (co-editor with Helga Kuhse), Blackwell, 1999/ Oxford, 2006
* *A Darwinian Left*, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Londres, 1999; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000. ISBN 0-300-08323-8
* *Writings on an Ethical Life*, Ecco, Nova York, 2000; Fourth Estate, Londres, 2001. ISBN 0-06-019838-9
* *Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics* (edited by Helga Kuhse), Blackwell, Oxford, 2001
* *One World: The Ethics of Globalization*, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2002; 2nd edition, pb, Yale University Press, 2004; Oxford Longman, Hyderabad, 2004. ISBN 0-300-09686-0
* *Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna*, Ecco Press, Nova York, 2003; HarperCollins Australia, Melbourne, 2003; Granta, Londres, 2004
* *The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush*, Dutton, Nova York, 2004; Granta, Londres, 2004; Text, Melbourne, 2004. ISBN 0-525-94813-9
* ''How Ethical is Australia? An Examination of Australia's Record as a Global Citizen* (with Tom Gregg), Black Inc, Melbourne, 2004
* *The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature* (co-edited with Renata Singer), Blackwell, Oxford, 2005
* *In Defense of Animals. The Second Wave* (ed.), Blackwell, Oxford, 2005
* *The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter*, Rodale, Nova York, 2006 (co-author with Jim Mason); Text, Melbourne; Random House, Londres. Auudio version: Playaway. ISBN 1-57954-889-X
* *Eating* (con Jim Mason), Arrow, Londres, 2006
* *Stem Cell Research: the ethical issues*. (coeditado con Lori Gruen, Laura Grabel, and Peter Singer. Nova York: Blackwells. 2007.
* *The Bioethics Reader: Editors' Choice*. (coeditado con Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman and Udo Schüklenk). Nova York: Blackwells. 2007.
* *The Future of Animal Farming: Renewing the Ancient Contract* (con Marian Stamp Dawkins, and Roland Bonney). Nova York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
* *The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty''. Nova York: Random House 2009.

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