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  • Home
  • People
    • Members of CEPPA
    • Professorial Fellows
    • Postgraduate Members
    • CEPPA Advisory Committee
  • Projects
    • Climate Ethics
    • Philosophy of Climate Science
    • Health and Medicine
    • The Future of Work and Income
    • Effective Altruism
    • Knowledge, Democracy, and Public Discourse
    • Human Rights and Global Justice
    • Blame and Responsibility
    • Virtue and Character
    • Past projects
      • Philosophy and Education
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Reading Groups
    • Past CEPPA Talks
    • Knox Lectures 
    • The Ethics Cup
  • Outputs
    • St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    • CEPPA Chats
    • Haldane Prize

Peter Singer

2017 Knox Lecture

October 20, 2022May 30, 2017 by Theron Pummer

A video recording of Prof Peter Singer’s Knox Lecture. Singer spoke to an audience of over 300 people, and the lecture raised over £1600 in donations for effective charities.

Categories Effective Altruism, Events Tags Climate Change, Global Poverty, Knox Lectures, Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat

Risky Giving 

June 13, 2017April 6, 2016 by Michael Arrowsmith

Non-consequentialist criteria imply that it is not wrong to give to at least some of the charities that Singer and other effective altruists recommend, even when this comes with significant risk of doing harm.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism Tags Christian Barry, Leif Wenar, Peter Singer, The Ethics of Giving

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Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 9AL
United Kingdom

Director:
Dr Mara van der Lugt
Email: [email protected]

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