Peter Singer's Blog

T he Victorian and New South Wales governments are considering whether to introduce legislation to allow voluntary assistance in dying. I support legislation, with adequate safeguards against abuse, to achieve this objective.

My Project Syndicate column this month starts off with the recent White House summit on "Countering Violent Extremism" and asks whether we should really avoid naming it "Islamic extremism". There are some good comments already, so if you want to contribute to the debate, here's the link:
http://www.project-syndicate.org/comm...

Peter Singer, moral philosopher, answers seven-year-old Edie's question

Today's tasting of in vitro meat could herald a future free from needless animal suffering and polluting factory farms

Konrad Singer made seminal contributions to the field of physical chemistry through the 1960s and 70s

Disability activists have concerns about limiting growth, but it is not in the interests of the children to ban the treatment

For the US Navy to put dolphins in harm's way in the Persian Gulf is a form of speciesist enslavement we should be ending

Imagine a library of everything ever written. We could achieve it, but the copyright system is skewed toward corporate interests

If Nato treated all human life as of equal value when paying compensation it would change the face of the Afghan conflict

Where is the appreciation that we are social animals in Amy Chua's competitive approach to parenting?