Video of Peter Singer’s lecture, Animal Liberation, Forty Years On, has been posted on the Rotman Institute of Philosophy YouTube channel. Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, often credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, was first published in September 1975. In this lecture, the author assesses how well the argument has stood up over that [...]

Video of Peter Singer's lecture, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, has been posted on the Rotman Institute of Philosophy YouTube channel. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profound idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the “most good you can do.” [...]

by Anthony Skelton In the Sunday edition of the Toronto Star, an article entitled, "Are Peter Singer’s ideas too dangerous to hear?", details some of the controversy around Singer’s ideas, and includes me as an interviewee. Peter Singer is one of the most important practical moralists of our time. In a career spanning more than [...]

A new event page has been created for the September 19th author-meets-critics event with Katarzyna de Lazai-Radek and Peter Singer, discussing their book, "The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics”. Other presenters at the book symposium will be Thomas Hurka (Toronto), Jennifer Hawkins (Duke), Anthony Skelton (Western), and David Phillips (Houston). [...]

Post by Meghan Winsby As one of the “parents” of the Effective Altruism movement, Peter Singer will speak to Western’s Philosophy department on the subject in two weeks, outlining and defending his views on how to live what he considers a minimally ethical life. To live a fully ethical life, he claims, requires doing “the [...]