Peter Singer

Yes, so I retired from Princeton in 2024.

And one of the things that gave me more time to do was a podcast.

And I'm doing that with the Polish philosopher I mentioned, with whom I co-authored The Point of View of the Universe.

And we also co-authored a book on utilitarianism for Oxford University Press's very short introduction series.

And we're both interested in what it is to live well.

We're both basically hedonistic utilitarians, so we're presenting that point of view.

But we thought it would be interesting to get a range of different views of guests who...

have either something to say about that because it's one of their interests, perhaps some of their research that they've been working on, what enables people to live well, or they're just people who've led interesting lives, sometimes quite long lives, sometimes not so long.

So we've had a wide range of guests on the podcast, starting with the late psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who was a Nobel laureate, and many other guests from different fields.

We recently had Paul Simon, the musician,

And we've also had Judy Collins, a folk singer, a great singer.

We've had Hugh Val Harari, author of Sapiens.

and a range of other people living more ordinary lives.

Some of them have been activists.

Ingrid Newkirk from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been on.

Some of them have been people who've lived altruistically in various ways.

We've had Kakenya Nataya, who was a Maasai woman from Kenya who...

made a deal with her father that she would go through the genital mutilation ceremony that was typical for girls in her culture if he allowed her to go to high school, which girls usually didn't do.

They usually got married at 13 or 14.

And she ended up going to a college in the United States after high school and starting a movement called Kakenya's Dream to try and give other girls in countries where they did not have a future as an independent person, that kind of future.