Peter Singer on Living an Ethical Life: How to Do the Most Good

Peter Singer on Living an Ethical Life: How to Do the Most Good
December 13th, 2023
7:00 – 8:30 pm

Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Peter Singer discusses the age-old question of Living an Ethical Life: How to Do the Most Good. Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford, Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.  He became well-known after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975.  Singer’s other best-known books are Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, Pushing Time Away, The Life You Can Save, The Point of View of the Universe, Ethics in the Real World, and Why Vegan? 

Hailed as “the world’s most influential living philosopher,” Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honor, in 2012.  He founded the charity The Life You Can Save and is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Controversial Ideas. In 2021, he was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. Following the lecture, S. Matthew Liao will lead a talkback.

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Professor of Global Public Health, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University.  He is the author or editor of The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press); Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press); Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (Oxford University Press); The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press); Current Controversies in Bioethics (Routledge), and over 70 articles in philosophy and bioethics.  He has given TED and TEDx talks in New York and CERN, Switzerland, and he has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, Harper’s Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Scientific American and other media outlets.  He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal of moral, political and legal philosophy.

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