[cgfc] Peter Singer Wed 10/8, 7pm

[Jon]

Hello,

Peter Singer will be giving a free lecture in the main lounge of Allen
Hall this wednesday, oct 8 at 7pm.  Dr. Singer is the author of Animal
Liberation, and is considered by many people as the founder of the modern
animal rights movement.  There will also be a free vegetarian food fair in
Allen at 6pm, right before the lecture.  Vegetarian food from a variety of
different cuisines will be available.  More information about Dr. Singer
is below, feel free to email me with any questions about the talk.

-Jon Fisher

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.