351 Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures

Peter Singer has been an influential philosopher for a number of decades. He was a significant early voice in animal rights, has been a leading thinker of utilitarianism, and helped inspire the effective altruism movement. In this podcast episode, we try our best to talk about all of those things -- working from metaethical questions of consequentialism vs. other approaches, to specific flavors of utilitarianism, the practical demands that ethics places on people, the rights of animals, and the decisions we make at the end of our lives. Blog post with transcript: Support Mindscape on Patreon . Peter Singer received his B.Phil. in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He retired from Princeton University in 2023, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of a number of influential books, including Animal Liberation (1975). He has been named a Companion of the order of Australia, and is a winner of the Berggruen Prize. He is the founder of the charity The Life You Can Save . He and philosopher Kasia de Lazari Radek are co-hosts of the Lives Well Lived podcast ( YouTube , Spotify , Apple ). Web site Princeton University Center for Human Values page Google Scholar publications Amazon author page Wikipedia Bluesky

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351 Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures is an episode from Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll.

This episode is 01:15:37 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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