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Practical Ethics is widely read and was described as "an excellent text for an introductory ethics course" by the philosopher John Martin Fischer. [4] The philosopher James Rachels recommended the book "as an introduction centered on such practical issues as abortion, racism, and so forth."
Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
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— Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (2011), 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, p. 50 Utilitarian philosophers such as Singer care about the well-being of sentient non-human animals as well as humans.
The centre is now known as the Monash Bioethics Centre. It focusses on the branch of ethics known as bioethics, a field relating to biological science and medicine. It was founded in October 1980 by Professors Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, [1] as the first centre in Australia devoted to bioethics, and one of the first in the world. [2]
Singer found it difficult to accept the argument from intrinsic worth of a-biotic or "non-sentient" (non-conscious) entities, and concluded in his first edition of "Practical Ethics" that they should not be included in the expanding circle of moral worth. [14] This approach is essentially then, bio-centric.
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 ...
[8]: 3 Singer also notes that utilitarianism is "the best-known, though not the only, consequentialist theory." [8]: 3 Epicureanism offers a pleasure-based consequential theory of ethics, and its founder says "we think empirically concerning the actions based on the results observed from any course of action."