Editing Peter Singer (section)

==Life and career==

His father imported tea and coffee, while his mother practised medicine. Singer studied law, history and philosophy at the University of Melbourne, gaining his degree in 1967. He received an MA for a thesis entitled ''Why should I be moral?'' in 1969. He was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, obtaining a B.Phil in 1971 with a thesis on civil disobedience, supervised by R. M. Hare, and subsequently published as a book in 1973. <ref>''Democracy and Disobedience'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973, ISBN 0-19-824504-1.</ref>

After spending two years as a Radcliffe lecturer at University College, Oxford, he was visiting professor at New York University for 16 months. He returned to Melbourne in 1977, where he has spent most of his career, apart from many visiting positions internationally, and until his move to Princeton in 1999.