Peter Singer

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek |Peter Singer

Credit Credit... Kelli Anderson On March 19, 2024, we emailed the psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, inviting him to appear on our podcast, "Lives Well Lived," and suggesting a date in May. He replied promptly, saying that he would not be available then because he was on his way to Switzerland, where, despite being relatively healthy at 90, he planned to die by assisted suicide on March 27.

3 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Peter Singer

Martin Luther King Jr. said that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Was he right? Some skeptics might question whether there even is such a thing as “the moral universe.” What we call morality, they may say, is nothing more than the subjective judgments of people in various times and places.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Peter Singer

March 23, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the past few weeks, the Tasmanian salmon industry has been in the headlines. More than a million fish are reported to have died in what appears to be an outbreak of a bacterial disease. In February alone, more than 5500 tonnes of dead fish were dumped at southern Tasmanian waste facilities.

1 month ago | almendron.com | Peter Singer

Desde la antigüedad, muchos pensadores se han preguntado si elegimos libremente lo que hacemos o, por el contrario, si nuestras acciones están determinadas por fuerzas que escapan a nuestro control. Descubrimientos científicos que mejoran la comprensión de las causas de nuestro comportamiento han dado nuevo ímpetu a este debate.

1 month ago | project-syndicate.org | Peter Singer

Do we really deserve credit or blame for the decisions we make, or are our choices fully determined by our genes or by the conditions in which were raised – in any case, by factors over which we had no control? The question has been asked for millennia, and determinists always make the same mistake. MELBOURNE – Since ancient times, thinkers have asked whether we freely choose what we do or if our actions are determined by forces beyond our control.