Peter Singer

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics Emeritus at Princeton University. His many books include The Most Good You Can Do and Animal Liberation.

Reply to Effective Altruism Responses

  • Peter Singer

The Logic of Effective Altruism

A minimally acceptable ethical life requires using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place.

  • Peter Singer
with responses from
  • Emma Saunders-Hastings
  • Daron Acemoglu
  • Rob Reich
  • Angus Deaton
  • Paul Brest
  • Jennifer Rubenstein
  • Iason Gabriel
  • Larissa MacFarquhar
  • András Miklós
  • Leila Janah
  • Catherine Tumber

Doing the Most Good

Effective altruists rely more on reason than emotion.

  • Peter Singer
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