As Peter Singer puts it: where "a being is not capable ... should be regarded as deserving full moral consideration. This is speciesism, which, despite much criticism, is a perfectly coherent ...

'Speciesism' is the idea that being human is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non-human animals. ...a prejudice or bias in favour of the interests of ...

In his book Animal Liberation, the philosopher Peter Singer made a powerful case against speciesism—the belief that humans are inherently superior to other types of animals. He wrote ...

Australian philosopher Peter Singer says that where world poverty is concerned 'giving to charity' is neither charitable nor generous; it is no more than our duty and not giving would be wrong.

In “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” an enormously influential article published in 1972, the philosopher Peter Singer posed the following hypothetical: You are walking by a shallow pond and see a ...