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Blog Source: www.cbc-network.org
| 14 days ago
CBC invites you to discuss the following topic. Also supplied for the first time on DVD is the original debate between Nigel M. de. S. Cameron and Peter Singer, The Debate of the Century: What Does it Mean to be Human? ...
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Blog Source: www.cbc-network.org
| 14 days ago
Peter Singer has been dubbed “the world's most influential living philosopher.” An Australian whose appointment to a chair in bioethics at Princeton University in the late 90s stirred furious controversy, he combines personal modesty ...
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Blog Source: mindonline.uchicago.edu
| 14 days ago
Peter Singer. This interdisciplinary seminar in clinical medical ethics has met each year since 1981 when Mark Siegler and Richard Epstein organized a year-long program on Bad Outcomes after Medical Innovation. The 2009-10 seminar, ...
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Blog Source: www.georgetownvoice.com
| 14 days ago
Peter Singer's seminal work Animal Liberation, scanned in an afternoon at Barnes and Noble, introduced me to new arguments for animal rights. Yet, something always held me back from making the jump away from omnivorous eating habits. ...
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Blog Source: severedisabilitykid.blogspot.com
| 14 days ago
Unlike the Peter Singer's of the world, these two saw that our pre-adult selves were not "non-persons" but the potential for all things great in the world. They didn't look at the seed and claim it valueless because it wasn't yet a tree ...
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Blog Source: edwardfeser.blogspot.com
| 14 days ago
In his book Practical Ethics, Peter Singer assures us that “sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations of honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about ...
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Blog Source: www.moreintelligentlife.com
| 14 days ago
For those who lack a natural fondness for abstractions, philosophy is a discipline best experienced in bite-sized pieces—on a Teaching Company tape for the commute, say, or in a profile of Peter Singer for the New York Times Magazine.
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Blog Source: herculodge.typepad.com
| 14 days ago
I said, “I don't believe in Peter Singer's sentient being theory. I'd kill rats if I needed to. And mice and other mammalian pestilence. That's not an issue with me. But I do share your objection to making animals suffer, shedding their ...
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Blog Source: onwardstate.com
| 18 days ago
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes to produce the food you eat? A week from today, the Penn State Vegetarian Club will be joined.
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Blog Source: smartpei.typepad.com
| 18 days ago
Some skeptics, like Princeton University's Peter Singer, argue that Americans have a duty to avoid going local and to keep purchasing raw commodities from the global South, like plantation-grown bananas and coffee.