March 10 — Hear the world's most controversial philosopher talk about ending poverty in our lifetimes


Peter Singer — Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University; Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne — delivers the 5th Annual Baker-Ort Lecture in International Healthcare Philanthropy

When: Campus Center, Room CE 450 (Fourth Floor)

Open to the public and free. For more information, please contact Becky Cervenka at 278-1669.

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher specializing in applied ethics. He was educated at Scotch College, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Oxford. Outside academic circles, Singer is best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the touchstone of the animal liberation movement. He has written on a wide range of other topics, including world poverty, abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, and many others. His most recent publication is The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (March 2009, Random House Publishers).

For more information, see: http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/

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