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2023
Abstract This chapter focuses on Peter Singer, who is an important figure in moral philosophy and provides advice that would require most people to change their lives. It discusses Singer’s 1975 book Animal Liberation, which led to effective movements in reducing the suffering of animals in factory farming, scientific experiments, and ...
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Abstract This chapter focuses on Peter Singer, who is an important figure in moral philosophy and provides advice that would require most people to change their lives. It discusses Singer’s 1975 book Animal Liberation, which led to effective movements in reducing the suffering of animals in factory farming, scientific experiments, and ...
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2003
Abstract Peter Singer is probably the world’s best-known living philosopher. This is not just because he is an excellent philosopher. Of course, he is that, and his work includes a great deal of important, perceptive, tightly argued, analytical writing about many of the difficult theoretical problems of moral philosophy.
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Abstract Peter Singer is probably the world’s best-known living philosopher. This is not just because he is an excellent philosopher. Of course, he is that, and his work includes a great deal of important, perceptive, tightly argued, analytical writing about many of the difficult theoretical problems of moral philosophy.
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Monist, 1993
In the last two decades an intense philosophical discussion of problems in medical ethics has developed. A good part of the debate centers around the circumstances of death and dying under modern conditions. Due to ad vances in surgery and increased possibilities of life-sustaining treatment, the question as to what extent life-saving measures are or ...
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In the last two decades an intense philosophical discussion of problems in medical ethics has developed. A good part of the debate centers around the circumstances of death and dying under modern conditions. Due to ad vances in surgery and increased possibilities of life-sustaining treatment, the question as to what extent life-saving measures are or ...
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Peter Singer’S Argument for Utilitarianism
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2005The paper begins by situating Singer within the British meta-ethical tradition. It sets out the main steps in his argument for utilitarianism as the 'default setting' of ethical thought. It argues that Singer's argument depends on a hierarchy of reasons, such that the ethical viewpoint is understood to be an adaptation--an extension--of a fundamental ...
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2020
Peter Singer è uno dei principali sostenitori contemporanei dell'utilitarismo delle preferenze. Egli non solo ha sviluppato una solida teoria normativa, ma ha anche affrontato in maniera originale e autorevole questioni di metaetica, psicologia morale e, soprattutto, etica pratica.
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Peter Singer è uno dei principali sostenitori contemporanei dell'utilitarismo delle preferenze. Egli non solo ha sviluppato una solida teoria normativa, ma ha anche affrontato in maniera originale e autorevole questioni di metaetica, psicologia morale e, soprattutto, etica pratica.
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