Philosophy Day

Prof Peter Singer (Princeton University )

The main event at CCNY's World Philosophy Day is an evening keynote speech by a noted philosopher, on a topic of general interest to the public.

The 2015 keynote address will take place on the CCNY campus, on Thursday, 19th November, beginning at 6:30pm in the North Academic Building, room 0/201 (see here for directions and map). Students, faculty, and members of the public are invited and warmly encouraged to participate! A reception with the speaker will follow the talk. Join us for food and conversation with our keynote speaker!

The 2015 WPD speaker will be Peter Singer (Princeton University). Peter is an Australian moral philosopher. He is currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. 

He is known in particular for his book, Animal Liberation (1975), a canonical text in animal rights/liberation theory. For most of his career, he supported preference utilitarianism, but in his later years became a classical or hedonistic utilitarian, when co-authoring The Point of View of the Universe with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. The title of Peter's keynote address will be: "The most good you can do: effectively aiding humans and other animals."