Peter Singer at Stanford Wed. April 23, 7 PM

[Guest guest]

Mark your calendars for this!

 

Wednesday, April 23, 7:00 PM:

Peter Singer speaks on " All Animals Are Equal - But in What Sense of

Equality? " Free and open to the public. In Dinkelspiel Auditorium,

Stanford University. Map:

http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=02-200

 

Singer is the author of " Animal Liberation " , a book sometimes credited

with starting the modern animal rights movement. In it, he argued that

" all animals are equal. " The claim is often misunderstood, and

sometimes used to caricature the animal movement. In this lecture

Singer will explain what he means by the claim, why it is something that

we all ought to accept, and what its implications are for our everyday

life.

 

Singer holds a joint appointment at Princeton's University Center for

Human Values and at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Applied

Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is the author of numerous books and

articles, including " The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter " , 2006.

 

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Peter Singer is one of the best-known contemporary philosophers and a

central figure in animal rights. His classic book Animal Liberation,

first published in 1975, is widely hailed as the catalyst for the modern

animal rights movement. He is also the author of many other books on a

range of subjects related to ethics and responsibility. Singer was an

early inductee into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame, and currently

teaches Bioethics at Princeton University.

 

See also:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer

http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/

http://events.stanford.edu/events/124/12419/

 

Review of " The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter " --

http://www.idausa.org/essays/the_way_we_eat.html

 

Some quotes from " Animal Liberation " --

http://www.ecobooks.com/books/animalib.htm