Robinson's Podcast
Robinson's Podcast
Robinson Erhardt
209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation
1 hour 28 minutes Posted May 26, 2024 at 3:00 pm.
Introduction
Peter Singer’s Entry into Philosophy
What Is Utilitarianism?
On Consequentialism vs Deontology
On Trolley Problems and Moral Facts
On Moral Realism and Anti-Realism
On Hedonistic Utilitarianism
The Lives Well Lived Podcast
A Puzzle About Trolley Problems
On the Origin of Peter Singer’s Concern for Animals
Is It Ever Morally Permissible to Eat Meat?
Consider the Turkey
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
The Life You Can Save
The Buddhist and the Ethicist
The Journal of Controversial Ideas
Peter’s Substack
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Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor Emeritus of Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is among the most influential living philosophers, and among the most influential moral philosophers of the last century. Peter is best known for his work in applied ethics on animal welfare and global poverty. In this episode, Robinson and Peter discuss these topics after first introducing his more general views on moral philosophy, including those on utilitarianism and meta-ethics. Throughout their conversation they also touch on Peter’s new podcast, Lives Well Lived, co-hosted with Kasia de Lazari Radek, the Journal of Controversial Ideas, Peter’s Substack, Bold Reasoning with Peter Singer, and his latest and next books, which are respectively The Buddhist and the Ethicist (Shambhala, 2023) and Consider the Turkey (Princeton, 2024).
Peter’s Website: https://www.petersinger.info
Lives Well Lived Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/6628460c6b51e80012b834c2
The Life You Can Save Organization: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org.au
The Journal of Controversial Ideas: https://journalofcontroversialideas.org
Peter’s Substack: https://boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com
The Buddhist and the Ethicist: https://a.co/d/38DOmbK
Consider the Turkey: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691231686/consider-the-turkey 
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, and everyone in-between.