It’s been 50 years since Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values, wrote his essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” arguing that the affluent ought to ...

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I'm always looking for books that force me to revisit my ethical positions on how we use and abuse nonhuman animals (animals) and other aspects of human-animal interactions, so when I was asked to ...

Children between the ages of five and ten value strangers, and life itself, very differently than adults do. What does this tell us about the roles culture, biology, and our capacity to reason play in ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences is shared by Steven Pinker (Harvard University) and Peter Singer (Princeton University) in recognition of their ...