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and welcome to Philosophy for Our Times. It's Ed and Avi here. Hi. So today's episode features an interview from the Australian philosopher Peter Singer and he tends to focus his work on ethics and more specifically applied ethics. Soi you edited this episode i haven't heard it yet can you tell us what we can expect from it yeah peter singer just talks in a really interesting way about how philosophy should be tackling the problems that we actually think about in our lives and from like kind of what food to eat to issues like abortion that um tend to be relevant people's lives and election choices so it has a kind of like activist practical focus he also talks about his belief that you can measure philosophical questions empirically it's not just like he's kind of not lofty and theoretical he's really interested in making philosophy practically helpful so i think it will be really good for you guys a little bit like a utilitarian then yeah kind of he thinks about like greatest good in a really interesting way um and effective altruism and yeah charlie challenges him on the limits of that and yeah i think he's fairly challenged in this one as well. So it's a good talk. Great. So I guess we can walk away with some questions about the kind of choices and habits we have in our lives. Yeah. And without further ado, we will hand over to Peter Singer. Peter Singer, welcome to How the Light Gets In. Thank you.