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Podcast: Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley
Episode: Effective Altruism & Speciesism, with Peter Singer
Description: Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, 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. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its “All-TIME” list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. He has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 book which have been translated into more than 30...