Philosophical Discussion Group
The Philosophy Group led by Dr. Phil Pecorino will be meeting on the SECOND Thursday of the month at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library, 999 Old Country Rd., Plainview, Nassau County, NY.
TOPIC: "Peter Singer: A Dangerous Mind"
What of the Ethics of Peter Singer? Animal Rights? Tithing? Vegetarianism?
The New Yorker calls him "the most influential living philosopher." His critics call him "the most dangerous man in the world." Peter Singer, the De Camp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values.
I expect that we will spend the 2 hours we have exploring the meanings and assumptions and presuppositions associated with those questions.
1 (Short) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
2. The Singer Solution to World Poverty by Peter Singer ,The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 1999, pp. 60-63 http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/19990905.htm
3. A Vegetarian Philosophy by Peter
Singer In SIAN GRIFFITHS & JENNIFER WALLACE (eds.), Consuming Passions. Manchester, 1998, pp.
66-72
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/singer05.htm
4 . A Convenient Truth by
Peter
Singer Op-Ed Contributor NY TIMES Published: January 26, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/opinion/26singer.html
ABOUT Peter Singer: The Pursuit of Happiness, Peter Singer interviewed by Ronald Bailey REASON <agazone December 2000 http://www.reason.com/news/show/27886.html
CRITICS of Peter Singer
Peter Singer: Architect of the Culture of Death by DONALD DEMARCO http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0049.html
Peter Singer Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/
The best online source
for interviews with Peter Singer as well
as articles about Peter Singer , is http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/
Enjoy the readings!
We look forward to the conversation and the
dialogue.
Philip A. Pecorino, Ph.D.
Professor, Philosophy
Social Sciences Department
Queensborough Community College
http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/Default.htm
FREE and open to the public!
