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In a similar vein, Peter Singer, for much of his career a major proponent of preference utilitarianism and himself influenced by the views of Hare, has been criticised for giving priority to the views of beings capable of holding preferences (being able actively to contemplate the future and its interaction with the present) over those solely ...
For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian. He revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian. On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics.
The term "equal consideration of interests" first appeared in Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer's 1975 book Animal Liberation. [2] Singer asserts that if all beings, not just humans, are included as having interests that must be considered, then the principle of equal consideration of interests opposes not only racism and sexism , but ...
The difference is that antifrustrationism is an axiology, whereas negative preference utilitarianism is an ethical theory. The moral philosopher Peter Singer has in the past endorsed a position similar to antifrustrationism (negative preference utilitarianism), writing: The creation of preferences which we then satisfy gains us nothing.
The concept of preference utilitarianism was first proposed in 1977 by John Harsanyi in Morality and the Theory of Rational Behaviour, [61] [62] however the concept is more commonly associated with R. M. Hare, [59] Peter Singer, [63] and Richard Brandt. [64] Harsanyi claims that his theory is indebted to: [62]: 42
While writing that "The utility of this utilitarian's book to students of its subject can hardly be exaggerated", Hart also criticized Practical Ethics for philosophical inconsistency in its chapter on abortion. He argues that Singer insufficiently explains how preference and classical utilitarianism each view abortion, and does not bring out ...
Peter Singer, known for his involvement with the animal liberation movement (who studied Hare's work as an honours student at the University of Melbourne and came to know Hare personally while he was an Oxford BPhil graduate student), [5] has explicitly adopted some elements of Hare's thought, though not his doctrine of universal prescriptivism.
Personism is an ethical philosophy of personhood as typified by the thought of the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer. [1] [2] [3] It amounts to a branch of secular humanism with an emphasis on certain rights-criteria. [4] Personists believe that rights are conferred to the extent that a creature is a person. [4]