Peter Singer on Utilitarianism

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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism

Postby RyanCarey on 2011-11-11T06:57:00

A 39 minute interview with Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, for your viewing pleasure:
http://princetonphilosophyreview.org/2011/11/interview-with-peter-singer/
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Re: Peter Singer on Utilitarianism

Postby yboris on 2011-11-19T23:10:00

Thank you for your post.
Singer is being one of the most reasonable human beings ever, again; pleasure to watch :D
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Re: Peter Singer on Utilitarianism

Postby Hedonic Treader on 2011-11-20T05:36:00

Thanks for this link. It's always interesting to hear Singer. I find it a bit unfortunate though that many recent interviews are mostly concerned with his well-known views. I'd be curious about his take on some other topics discussed here, such as wild animal suffering, the ethics of colonizing the galaxy, the possibility of sentient algorithms, technological hedonic enhancement or a formal value metric based on abstractions from neuroscience.
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