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Peter Singer, a Rare card
Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Peter Singer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Peter Singer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the ______ from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
Answer
subject. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. From the Peter Singer article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Santiago Peña. Santiago Peña 89 · Peter Singer 85 · Train 80 · James Bowie 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
- His book Animal Liberation criticized intensive animal farming and speciesism, and shaped the animal rights movement.
- His essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" argues for the moral imperative of donating to help the global poor, using the drowning child analogy.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peter Singer article was read about 240,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Peter Singer
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peter Singer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ula Zarosa, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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