Oct 25, 2013 ... other books include: Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We ... Born
and educated in Australia, Peter Singer is now Ira W. DeCamp ...
PHIL 392 CRN 47509 1 unit, CR/NC
Instructor of record: Mary I. Bockover BSS 558
HSU PHILOSOPHY FORUM 2013
Ethics, Animals, and the Environment Created and Moderated by Mary I. Bockover Email:
[email protected] Website: www.users.humboldt.edu/mibockover
Keynote Lecture by Peter Singer Peter Singer Peter Singer first became internationally well known after the publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include: Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?; Rethinking Life and Death; One World; Pushing Time Away; The President of Good and Evil; The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason); and The Life You Can Save. Born and educated in Australia, Peter Singer is now Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Practical Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Peter Singer is considered one of the most, if not the most widely read and influential contemporary philosophers alive today. We are honored to have him serve as keynote speaker for our HSU Philosophy Forum of 2013, on the year that our university known for it education on animals and the environment turns 100 years old!
Keynote Presentation Friday, October 25, 2013 from 7-9pm in Van Duzer Theatre
Forum Panel Saturday, November 9, 2013 from 9am – 1pm in TBA 9am – noon: Forum Presentations Noon – 1pm: Catered Lunch on site and Open Discussion
Presenters (for the November 9 forum): Benjamin Shaeffer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at HSU “Why sentience? Why Anything?” Loren Cannon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at HSU “Eating Invasive Species” Sarah Ray, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at HSU “Rub Trees, Webcams, and GIS: The Hybrid Geography of Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’ Bear 71” Barbara Clucas, Assistant Professor in the Wildlife Department at HSU “Ethical Issues in Wildlife Conservation” STUDENT REQUIREMENTS: (1) attendance at all events, (2) readings and movie viewings (TBA), 5 hours of self-directed research, and (3) a two-page reflection paper on a forum topic of your choosing (double-spaced and due on the last day of finals by 5pm).
