Princeton Bioethicist and controversial contemporary philosopher Peter Singer has a new book and statement on society's priorities. In The Life You Can Save, Singer argues for people to spend higher percentages of their income on properly vetted agencies that are truly oriented in helping the third world. Granted, Americans tend to provide more aid than most other industrialized countries, but much of those donations go to religious organizations and higher education alumni contributions.
He was on The Diane Rehm Show last week and I'd like to share it with you. Listen here. From Rehm's site:
He has been interviewed by DJ Grothe at the Center for Inquiry a couple times to discuss his other books: The Way We Eat, listen here, and Ethics In An Age of Darwin, listen here.
Update: 03/23/09:
Dr. Singer was on 'The Colbert Report' on March 12, 2009, as he has been previously. Here are a bunch of essays he's authored, although I haven't read them.
He was on The Diane Rehm Show last week and I'd like to share it with you. Listen here. From Rehm's site:
Author, co-author, and editor of forty books on topics ranging from Marx and Hegel to stem cell research to the way we eat, believes ending world poverty is within reach. However, it will require a new perspective on what it means to live an ethical life. He offers a plan for giving, and explains why it is ethically indefensible not to help those in need.
He has been interviewed by DJ Grothe at the Center for Inquiry a couple times to discuss his other books: The Way We Eat, listen here, and Ethics In An Age of Darwin, listen here.
Update: 03/23/09:
Dr. Singer was on 'The Colbert Report' on March 12, 2009, as he has been previously. Here are a bunch of essays he's authored, although I haven't read them.
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