Libros de Peter Singer

Marx: A Very Short Introduction

• 130 páginas
• Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central...

Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction

• 138 páginas
• Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are seen...

One World Now: The Ethics Of Globalization

• One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter..

Animal Liberation. Die Befreiung Der Tiere

• 332 páginas
• »Dieses Buch ist kein sentimentaler Aufruf zur Sympathie gegenüber >niedlichen

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

• 211 páginas
• "Singer's argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right. The world would be a better place if we were as tough-minded in how we donate money as in how we make it."--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

Point Of View Of The Universe

• What does the idea of taking ’the point of view of the universe’ tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth:...

Cybersecurity And Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs To Know

• 320 páginas
• A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally...

The Ethics Of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

• Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential..

A Companion To Bioethics

• This second edition of "A Companion to Bioethics, " fully revised and updated to reflect the..

J. M. Coetzee And Ethics

• 400 páginas
• In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credite...

The Expanding Circle

• 232 páginas
• What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation....

Practical Ethics

Practical Ethics

Animal Liberation

• 368 páginas
• Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement...

The Cambridge Textbook Of Bioethics

In Defense Of Animals

• Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The..

The Moral Of The Story

• 640 páginas
• In The Moral of the Story, Peter and Renata Singer draw on some of the best works of fiction, playwriting, and poetry in order to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics.

Moral Of The Story

• In The Moral of the Story, Peter and Renata Singer draw on some of the best works of..

German Philosophers

• 446 páginas
• German Philosophers contains studies of four of the most important German theorists: Kant, arguably the most influential modern philosopher; Hegel, whose philosophy inspired a vision of a communist society that for more than one hundred years enlivened...

How Are We To Live?

• 318 páginas
• B'Imagine that you could choose a book that everyone in the world would read. My choice would be this book.' Roger Crisp, EthicsMany people have an uneasy feeling that they may be missing out on something basic that would give their lives a significance...