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Prominent philosopher to speak at PLU
August 23, 2007
Internationally renowned philosopher Peter Singer will visit PLU to discuss the ethical implications of global poverty on Monday, Sept. 10.
Singer will deliver his lecture, “Global Poverty: What Are Our Obligations?,” at 7:30 p.m. in Chris Knutzen Hall of the University Center. The talk is free and open to the public. It is presented as the Heather Koller Memorial Lecture.
Singer is the Ira DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He specializes in practical ethics.
He is perhaps best known for his book “Animal Liberation.” Published in 1975, the book attempts to place humans and animals on a more even moral plane. It is credited with philosophically launching much of the animal rights movement.
Among his other publications is a 1972 article on world hunger, “Famine and Affluence,” the book “One World: Ethics and Globalization” published in 2002 and two well-known pieces published in the New York Times Magazine. “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” and “What Should a Billionaire Give” both address everyday charity of citizens of affluent countries.
Most recently, he’s co-authored the book “The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter,” edited “In Defense Of Animals: The Second Wave” and authored “The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush.”
Singer has also written about biomedical ethics and the biological origins of morality.
Learn more about Singer at www.princeton.edu/~psinger or www.utilitarian.net/singer.
The Heather Koller Memorial Lecture was endowed in 1994 by Heather Koller’s parents, Carol and Brant, and her sister Jennifer. Koller battled bone cancer from childhood, and the disease claimed her life in June 1994, a month after her graduation from PLU.
In honor of Koller’s dual major in philosophy and English, the lectureship features topics related to ethics or creative writing. Since it was endowed, the lectureship has hosted two talks. These include a 1996 dialogue between Dax Cowart, the focus of one of the most famous biomedical ethic cases, and Robert Burt, a law professor at Yale University, and a 2001 talk by Robert Bellah, sociology professor at University of California, Berkeley.
For more information about the lectureship or Singer’s visit to campus, contact the humanities division at ext. 7228.
Singer is the Ira DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He specializes in practical ethics.
He is perhaps best known for his book “Animal Liberation.” Published in 1975, the book attempts to place humans and animals on a more even moral plane. It is credited with philosophically launching much of the animal rights movement.
Among his other publications is a 1972 article on world hunger, “Famine and Affluence,” the book “One World: Ethics and Globalization” published in 2002 and two well-known pieces published in the New York Times Magazine. “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” and “What Should a Billionaire Give” both address everyday charity of citizens of affluent countries.
Most recently, he’s co-authored the book “The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter,” edited “In Defense Of Animals: The Second Wave” and authored “The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush.”
Singer has also written about biomedical ethics and the biological origins of morality.
Learn more about Singer at www.princeton.edu/~psinger or www.utilitarian.net/singer.
The Heather Koller Memorial Lecture was endowed in 1994 by Heather Koller’s parents, Carol and Brant, and her sister Jennifer. Koller battled bone cancer from childhood, and the disease claimed her life in June 1994, a month after her graduation from PLU.
In honor of Koller’s dual major in philosophy and English, the lectureship features topics related to ethics or creative writing. Since it was endowed, the lectureship has hosted two talks. These include a 1996 dialogue between Dax Cowart, the focus of one of the most famous biomedical ethic cases, and Robert Burt, a law professor at Yale University, and a 2001 talk by Robert Bellah, sociology professor at University of California, Berkeley.
For more information about the lectureship or Singer’s visit to campus, contact the humanities division at ext. 7228.