Peter
Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946. He is the 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 Encyclopedia Britannica, and, with
Helga Kuhse, co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Singer was also the founding
father of the International
Association of Bioethics. Singer will be discussing his most recent book, One
World: the Ethics of Globalization.
