Lecture: Prof Peter Singer, "When morality demands more than humans are likely to do"

Past Event

Date
18 May 2011, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location
Corpus Christi College
Merton Street, Oxford, OX1 4JF

Speaker: Professor Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, preference utilitarian perspective.

In 2004, he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies, he was also voted one of Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals. Singer serves on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO formed to develop the Health Impact Fund proposal.

No booking is required but please note the auditorium has a maximum capacity of 135. It is advisable to arrive early to guarantee a place.

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