Peter Singer

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Peter Singer

Born 1946-07-06 · Melbourne, Florida, USA

Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favour of vegetarianism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor.

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Do You Trust This Computer? poster
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Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence, and today a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?

Do You Trust This Computer?

2018

Food ReLOVution poster
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“Food Relovution: What We Eat Can Make A Difference” is an eye-opening and compelling feature documentary that examines the consequences of the meat culture as concerns grow about health, world hunger, animal welfare and the environmental cost of livestock production. It aims to show how these global issues affect everyone and are interrelated, and how making our food choices with a sense of awareness, knowing what we are buying and what we are eating is the first fundamental step towards a better world.

Food ReLOVution

2017

Humans and Other Animals poster
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Humans and Other Animals

2024

Live and Let Live poster
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Live and Let Live is a feature documentary examining our relationship with animals, the history of veganism and the ethical, environmental and health reasons that move people to go vegan.

Live and Let Live

2013

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In the short film produced by Fronteiras do Pensamento in partnership with Okna Produções, Australian philosopher Peter Singer proposes fundamental ethical challenges about life: do we have the right to end our own life? After all, how different is existing from living?

Cedo

2013

Examined Life poster
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Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

Examined Life

2008

Every Three Seconds poster
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A documentary about normal people addressing global problems of hunger and poverty.

Every Three Seconds

2014

Empathy poster
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Ed is commissioned to make a documentary intending to change those habits of society that are harmful to animals. But completely alien to the animal protection movement, he will realize that to carry out the project, he must first convince himself.

Empathy

2017

Speciesism: The Movie poster
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Modern farms are struggling to keep a secret. Most of the animals used for food in the United States are raised in giant, bizarre factories, hidden deep in remote areas of the countryside. Speciesism: The Movie director Mark Devries set out to investigate. The documentary takes viewers on a sometimes funny, sometimes frightening adventure, crawling through the bushes that hide these factories, flying in airplanes above their toxic manure lagoons, and coming face-to-face with their owners.

Speciesism: The Movie

2013

Henry: One Man's Way poster
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One Man's Way is a 1996 documentary in which Peter Singer documents the efforts and philosophies of animal rights activist Henry Spira, who is often remembered as the most effective animal activist of the 20th century. Henry Spira is most notably known for his tireless efforts to expose the the cruel animal experimentation that goes on behind doors, especially in the cosmetic industry.

Henry: One Man's Way

1996

A Cow at My Table poster
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A Cow at My Table explores Western attitudes towards farm animals and meat, and the intense battle between animal advocates and the meat industry to influence the consumer's mind. Five years in production took Director Jennifer Abbott across Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand to meet with the leaders of the animal rights movement, animal welfare advocates as well as spokespeople from livestock industries. A Cow at My Table inter-cuts these diverse perspectives with archival films, images from modern-day agribusiness and footage of farm animals shot from uncharacteristic vantage points.

A Cow at My Table

1998

Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story poster
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This groundbreaking film reveals the truth surrounding Australia’s love-hate relationship with its beloved icon. The kangaroo image is proudly used by top companies, sports teams and as tourist souvenirs, yet when they hop across the vast continent some consider them to be pests to be shot and sold for profit. KANGAROO unpacks a national paradigm where the relationship with kangaroos is examined.

Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story

2018

Le Temps des bêtes : un film de cruauté et de compassion poster
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Le Temps des bêtes is a sociological, philosophical, and poetic exploration of cruelty and compassion in the age of neoliberalism.

Le Temps des bêtes : un film de cruauté et de compassion

2017

AI & Animals: A documentary poster
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The film explores the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the situation of animals—a crucial topic that remains largely undiscussed. It addresses the present and potential use of AI in factory farms and, conversely, in reducing wild animal suffering. It also examines how reducing speciesist attitudes in frontier AI systems can have an impact in the present and the future. Finally, it considers how AI tools could boost our efforts in animal advocacy.

AI & Animals: A documentary

2026

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