Australian moral philosopher and Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton. Author of Animal Liberation (1975) — widely credited with founding the modern animal-rights movement — and Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, and The Most Good You Can Do. A leading proponent of preference utilitarianism and a founding intellectual of the effective altruism movement.
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