“I’m a Sentientist because all suffering matters morally and because evidence and reason are the only ways to really understand our world.”

Find our first Sentientist conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast. Find our second Sentientist conversation, focusing on Peter’s speaking tour of China and his book “Consider The Turkey” here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.

Peter is often referred to as the “world’s most influential living philosopher.” He was the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, naturalistic, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the books “Animal Liberation”, Why Vegan? and “Animal Liberation Now!” (launched on the same day as our first Sentientism episode together!), in which he argues against speciesism and for a shift to plant-based food systems and veganism. He also wrote the essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and the books “The Life You Can Save” & “The Most Good You Can Do” which argue for effective altruism – using evidence & reasoning to do the most good we can for all sentient beings both human and not.

In 2004 Peter was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. In 2005, the Sydney Morning Herald placed him among Australia’s ten most influential public intellectuals. Singer is a cofounder of Animals Australia & the founder of The Life You Can Save. In 2021 he received the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. Peter donated the $1 million prize money to the most effective organizations working to assist people in extreme poverty and to reduce the suffering of animals in factory farms.

Peter has a sentiocentric moral scope. He is an atheist and has a naturalistic worldview.

@Peter-Singer on BlueSky
Peter on Instagram
Petersinger.info (including PeterSinger.ai)
Peter’s Bold Reasoning Substack
Peter and Kasia de Lazari Radek’s Lives Well Lived Podcast
Peter on Wikipedia