Note: this is an external event and not a meetup.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
6:30pm - 9:30pm
NSWTF Auditorium
37 Reservoir St
Surry Hills, Australia

Tickets available at gleebooks.

Peter Singer: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University since 1999, a position that since 2005 he has combined with an appointment as Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, attached to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. An internationally renowned philosopher and acclaimed author of over 25 books on ethics, Singer is best known for Animal Liberation, widely credited with starting the animal rights movement. His most recent book, The Ethics of What We Eat, was a 2006 bestseller.