Fjellstrom, Roger. “Is Singer’s Ethics Speciesist?” Environmental Values 12, no. 1 (2003): 911–06. doi:10.3197/096327103129341243.
To show favouritism toward humans has been considered a prejudice, otherwise known as “human chauvinism,” “anthropocentrism” or “speciesism.” Peter Singer is one philosopher in particular who holds this view. In this paper I argue that there is a lack of coherence between his ethical ideology and his actual ethical theory. Singer’s ethics in crucial respects exhibits favouritism toward humans, which is something he fails to justify non-partially and plausibly. It would thus be an instance of speciesism, in a sense of this term that he probably would accept. This, however, does not mean that his ethics should be rejected or is impossible to defend.
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