Australian Philosophers - Peter Singer, Graham Priest, David Stove, John Anderson, John Weckert, Samuel Alexander, Thomas Alured Faunce (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Peter Singer, Graham Priest, David Stove, John Anderson, John Weckert, Samuel Alexander, Thomas Alured Faunce, J. L. Mackie, Daniel Ross, David Chalmers, J. J. C. Smart, Charles Leonard Hamblin, Ross Honeywill, Barzillai Quaife, Frank Cameron Jackson, Val Plumwood, Margaret Somerville, Nick Trakakis, Leslie Cannold, Frank Knopfelmacher, John Finnis, Michael Devitt, Francis Anderson, David Malet Armstrong, Warwick Fox, Richard Sylvan, Raimond Gaita, John Passmore, Ian Robinson, Justin Clemens, Julian Savulescu, Sam Gillespie, Damon Young, Jeff Malpas, Michael A. Smith, Graham Oppy, Austin Woodbury, Paul R. Patton, Alan Stout, Alexander Sutherland, Oliver Feltham, James Franklin, Kim Sterelny, Helga Kuhse, Gregory Currie, George Molnar, Sydney Sparkes Orr, Glenn Albrecht, Genevieve Lloyd, Justin Oakley, Eugene Kamenka, Keith Campbell, Elizabeth Grosz, Geoffrey Brennan, William Mitchell, Stephen Gaukroger, John Burnheim, Andy Blunden, Jenny Teichman, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Freya Mathews, Rafe Champion, Colin Murray Turbayne, Nicholas Agar, Brian Weatherson, Jean Curthoys, A. J. Baker, C.A.J. Coady. Excerpt: Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, preference utilitarian perspective. He has served, on two occasions, as chair of philosophy at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996, he ran unsuccessfully as a Green candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004, he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. He has been voted one of Australia'...