Thursday, March 11 - 7 PM

Peter Singer is the author of “Animal Liberation,” “Practical Ethics,” and “Rethinking Life and Death,” among many others. He is currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values, and the author of the major article on ethics in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946. He is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He has taught at the University of Oxford, New York University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of California at Irvine, and La Trobe University. He is the author of Animal Liberation , first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement. His Practical Ethics is one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death received the 1995 National Book Council's Banjo Award for non-fiction.  He is the author of the major article on Ethics in the current edition of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica,” and, with Helga Kuhse, co-editor of the journal Bioethics . Singer was also the founding father of the International Association of Bioethics.

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