Singer's most comprehensive work, Practical Ethics ( 1979 ), analyzes in detail why and how living beings ' interests should be weighed.

The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singer's Formant, which has been shown to be a resonance added to the normal resonances of the vocal tract above the frequency range of most instruments and so enables the singer's voice to carry better over musical accompaniment.

The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singer's Formant ; which has been shown to match particularly well to the most sensitive part of the ear's frequency range.

According to Richard Flathman, Singer's 1961 book, Generalization in Ethics-An essay in the Logic of Ethics, with the Rudiments of a System of Moral Philosophy, was, at its publication, the " most detailed study of the topic " of generalization of the universalizability principle.

Singer's views of utilitarianism have also been noted as some of the most influential of modern ethicists.

One of Kieffer's most popular song books was The Temple Star, published at Singer's Glen in 1877.

It remains ( in its revised edition of 1992 and more recently 2006 ) the standard prayer book for most orthodox Jews in Great Britain and for many Jews around the world and is often informally known as the " Singer's Siddur ".

Yiddish authors, most notably Isaac Bashevis Singer, went on to achieve international acclaim as classic Jewish writers, and in Singer's case, win the 1978 Nobel Prize.

Singer's book Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics offers further examination of the ethical dilemmas concerning the advances of medicine.

A course in ethics led by Dr Hartmut Kliemt at the University of Duisburg where the main text used was Singer's Practical Ethics was, according to Singer, " subjected to organized and repeated disruption by protesters objecting to the use of the book on the grounds that in one of its ten chapters it advocates active euthanasia for severely disabled newborn infants ".

* Koren Sacks Siddur ( Hebrew-English ), Koren Publishers Jerusalem: based on latest Singer's prayer book, above ( described as the first siddur to " pose a fresh challenge to the ArtScroll dominance.

He introduced Newkirk to Peter Singer's influential book, Animal Liberation ( 1975 ), and in March 1980 she persuaded him to join her in forming People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, at that point just five people in a basement, as Newkirk described it.

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Peter Singer's writings, especially the book Animal Liberation, represent the leading edge of this kind of utilitarianism for animals as well as for people.

P. W. Singer's book concerning private military companies illustrates contemporary ways in which industry, particularly an information-based one, still interacts with the U. S. Government and the Pentagon.

Prebisch asked to change his first version, and in only three days and three nights, he wrote his book, quoting Singer's paper and his basic conclusion, and later discussed it at the meeting.

Singer's article also influenced the writing of Peter Unger's book Living High and Letting Die.

In addition to his addressing issues concerning the consumption of animal products, Singer's " Can You Do Good by Eating Well?

Singer's argument for abortion differs from many other proponents of abortion, then ; rather than attacking the second premise of the anti-abortion argument, Singer attacks the first premise, denying that it is necessarily wrong to take innocent human life:

The essay was inspired by the starvation of Bangladesh Liberation War refugees, and uses their situation as an example, although Singer's argument is general in scope.

Here is the thrust of Singer's argument:

Singer's work describes a moral philosophy which has become known as the generalization argument.

Singer's declaration read: " Energy is essential for economic growth ... We understand the motivation to eliminate what are perceived to be the driving forces behind a potential climate change ; but we believe the Kyoto Protocol — to curtail carbon dioxide emissions from only a part of the world community — is dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective, and economically destructive to jobs and standards-of-living.

In " Famine, Affluence, and Morality ", one of Singer's best-known philosophical essays, he argues that some people living in abundance while others starve is morally indefensible.

Regan writes that Singer's position is a consequence of his adapting a utilitarian, or consequentialist, approach to animal rights, rather than a strictly rights-based one, and argues that the rights-based position distances itself from non-consensual sex.

Williams claimed that Singer's utilitarianism is impractical as it's impossible to " make these calculations and comparisons in real life ".

They were unaware that, although Singer believes that some lives are so blighted from the beginning that their parents may decide their lives are not worth living, in other cases, once the decision is made to keep them alive, everything that can be done to improve the quality of their life should, to Singer's mind, be done.

Critics like Ken Binmore say that this cognitive dissonance is apparently not very strong, since people often knowingly ignore the interests of faraway societies quite similar to their own, and that the " ought " above only applies if one already accepts Singer's basic premises about the equality of various interests.

The principle also underlies Peter Singer's views, who is a moral utilitarian that has explicitly adopted it as the foundation of his ethical theory.

In Rolf Singer's classification of the Agaricales mushrooms, it is also the type species of section Boletus, a grouping of about 30 related boletes united by a number of characteristics: a mild-tasting, white flesh that does not change colour when exposed to air ; a smooth to distinctly raised, netted pattern over at least the uppermost portion of the stem ; a yellow-brown or olive-brown spore print ; white tubes that later become yellowish then greenish, which initially appear to be stuffed with cotton ; and cystidia that are not strongly coloured.

Gary L. Francione's theory of animal rights rejects Singer's utilitarian view and uses an abolitionist approach that is based on sentience alone, rather than on any particular characteristics like self-awareness.

A common criticism of Singer's essay is the demandingness objection.

" Town to Town " ( 1986 ) is a rock song about yuppies attempting to live normal lives amid a nuclear holocaust ; whilst their 1987 single " Singer's Hampstead Home " is often described as an attack on Boy George.

Bryan Singer's Superman Returns ( 2006 ) is unique due to the fact that it is a sequel to the first two Superman films, yet also a reboot to the third and fourth films.

The third theory of emotion is Schachter & Singer's two factor theory of emotion.

According to his profile in the Encyclopedia of Ethics, Singer's " writings also include important work on the moral philosophies of " John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick.

Thirteen of his essays ( one previously unpublished, on Peter Singer's approach to moral theory ) were published by Oxford Press as Person, Polis, Planet in 2008.

The Baltimore News Post reported in 1957 that had Singer's arguments about the need for satellites been heeded, the U. S. could have beaten Russia by launching the first earth satellite.

CBC said that tobacco money had paid for Singer's research and for his promotion of it, and that it was organized by APCO.

Congresswoman Lynn Rivers questioned Singer's credibility during a congressional hearing in 1995, saying he had not been able to publish anything in a peer-reviewed scientific journal for the previous 15 years, except for one technical comment.

Singer's positions have been criticised by groups, such as advocates for disabled people and right-to-life supporters, concerned with what they see as his attacks upon human dignity.

" Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, criticised Singer's appointment to the Princeton Faculty in a banquet speech at the organisation's national convention in July 2001, claiming that Singer's support for euthanizing disabled babies could lead to disabled older children and adults being valued less as well.

Initially, Prebisch wrote a long text, but after having written the first draft, and on repeated suggestion, he came to read Hans Singer's paper: Post-War Relations between Under-developed and Industrialized Countries ( Feb. 1949 ), about the deterioration of the terms of trade, which became decisive for him.

* September 14-Tony Canzoneri wins his second world title, knocking out Al Singer ( who in the process became the first world boxing champion in history to both win and lose the title by first round knockout ) in the first round and breaking Singer's record for the fastest finish in a world Lightweight title fight, in New York.

George Monbiot of The Guardian tracked down Bellamy's original source for this information and found that it was Fred Singer's website.

He served as Liberal House Leader in the 1970s and, in 1973, sued fellow Liberal MPP Eddie Sargent for libel after Sargent made remarks about Singer's retainer fee from a developer while he was appearing before a legislative committee to explain how he obtained the contract to build Ontario Hydro's new headquarters in Toronto.

Singer's torpedo was detonated by means of a trigger mechanism adapted from a rifle lock ( see flintlock mechanism for a similar device ).

* The Starry Crown ; for the Sabbath school, edited by Aldine S. Kieffer ; Singer's Glen, Virginia: Ruebush, Kieffer, & Co., 1874.