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davo
4th July 2011, 03:02 PM
This weeks speaker announcement is Peter Singer (http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/peter-singer/).

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Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash University. Since 1999 he has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. From 2005, he has also held the part-time position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. He has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 other books, including Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason) and most recently, The Life You Can Save. His works have appeared in more than 20 languages. He is the author of the major article on Ethics in the current edition of the Encylopaedia Britannica. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2008 readers of Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines voted him one of the 100 leading public intellectuals in the world.

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Voltairine
4th July 2011, 03:29 PM
:eek:

Say it ain't so?!?!?! Just when I thought GAC 2012 couldn't get any better...

wolty
4th July 2011, 03:32 PM
That's very cool.

Jaar-Gilon
4th July 2011, 03:37 PM
All right, all right I'm going already:D

The one speaker I was really dissapointed in not seeing last year was Peter. Terrific!!

FSM
4th July 2011, 04:07 PM
Boy, I'm so thinking of flying to Melbourne for this.
I heard that the last one was a sell-out? If so how can one assure tickets?
I'm assuming they go to AFA members first?, and if you aren't a member, what are the chances of getting tickets.

Thanks
Dave.

Voltairine
4th July 2011, 04:20 PM
FSM, I believe AFA members get first dibs (obviously not all will go) and tickets will be available for non-members shortly afterwards.

Praxis
4th July 2011, 04:34 PM
Awesome!! It was such a privilege to see Peter Singer speak at the last one. Such an opportunity and boy, did he get me thinking about things.

Very glad to hear I will get another chance to hear him.

The speaker roll-out continues to impress :)

AUSloth
4th July 2011, 06:51 PM
Sweet, watched his GAC2010 on the vimeo site last week.

girifox
14th July 2011, 03:00 PM
I just ordered the 2010 DVD, partly to hear him talk.
It's great he's attending 2012, he is really such a superb ethicist.