Manhattan College To Host Discussion By Ethicist And Philosopher Peter Singer

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Peter Singer, a world-renowned ethicist and philosopher, will discuss his recent book The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter at Manhattan College in Smith Auditorium on Oct. 19, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. The event is sponsored by the school of arts, the English department and the honors enrichment program. It is free and open to the public.

Singer currently serves as the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. During the past three years, he also has held a part-time position of laureate professor at Australia’s University of Melbourne Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

A native of Melbourne, Singer studied at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He also has taught at Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash University, as well as held several other visiting appointments.

Singer was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics and co-founded the journal Bioethics with Helga Kuhse. He also is the co-founder and president of The Great Ape Project, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. 

Singer’s works have appeared in more than 20 languages.  He is the author of several books and a major article on ethics in the current edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Two collections of his writings have been published: Writings on an Ethical Life, which he edited, and Unsanctifying Human Life, edited by Kuhse.

For more information about this event, please contact Daniel Collins, associate professor of English, at (718) 862-7498 or daniel.collins@manhattan.edu.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.