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A Short Biography of Peter Singer

Author Name:

Peter Singer

Born As:

Peter Albert David Singer

Other Names:

Born:

6 Jul 1946

Died:





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Received an MA for a thesis entitled Why should I be moral? in 1969.

Peter is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, andLaureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics - CAPPE, University of Melbourne.

Served, on two occasions, as Chair of Philosophy at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics.

Was recognized as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies in 2004.                                                                  
Singer's parents were Viennese Jews who escaped the German annexation of Austria and fled to Australia in 1938. His grandparents were less fortunate: his paternal grandparents were taken by the Nazis to Łódź, and were never heard from again; his maternal grandfather died in Theresienstadt