Practical Ethics

Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of AnimalLiberation in 1975. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its All-TIME list of the100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. Singerhas written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including PracticalEthics; The Expanding Circle; Rethinking Life and Death; Ethics into Action; The Life YouCan Save; The Most Good You Can Do; and, with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Point ofView of the Universe. His works have appeared in more than 25 languages.Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University ofMelbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States andAustralia, in 1999 he became Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the UniversityCenter for Human Values at Princeton University. Since 2005 he has combined hisPrinceton appointment with the position of Laureate Professor at the University ofMelbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. He is married, with threedaughters and four grandchildren. His recreations include hiking and surfing. In 2012 hewas made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation's highest civic honour.