Since 1999, Peter Singer has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of “Animal Liberation” in 1975. His other books include “Practical Ethics,” “The Expanding Circle,” “How Are We to Live?,” “Rethinking Life and Death,” “Pushing Time Away,” “The Life You Can Save,” “The Point of View of the Universe” (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), “Ethics in the Real World,” “Animal Liberation Now” and “The Buddhist and the Ethicist” (co-authored with Shih Chao-Hwei). 

In 2012 Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honor. He founded the charity The Life You Can Save and is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Controversial Ideas. In 2021, he was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, and in 2023, he shared, with Steven Pinker, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences.