Who is Peter Singer?
Dr. Peter Singer has been appointed to the Ira. W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values. He has special interests in animal rights and social philosophy.
Dr. Singer's appointment begins July 1, 1999.
Dr. Singer is a 1967 graduate of the University of Melbourne, he recieved his BPhil at Oxford in 1971 and remained there as lecturer for two years. He was a visiting assistant professor at New York University in 1975-76 and spent a year as senior lecturer as La Trobe University in Australia before becoming professor at Monash University, where he was the first director of the Center for Human Bioethics for eight years and now is deputy director. A DeCamp Lecturer at Princeton in 1992, Singer has been a visiting professor at the universities of British Columbia; Colorado; Californa, Irvine; Rome; and Canterbury. In 1992 he was elected Foundation President of the International Association of Bioethics.
Coeditor of Bioethics since 1985, Singer has published many articles and more than two dozen books, including Democracy and Disobedience (1973, 1994), Animal Liberation (1975, 1991 published in nine languages), Practical Ethics (1979), The Reproduction Revolution, Should the Baby Live? and Rethinking Life and Death (1995). He also wrote a major article on ethics in the current edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica . -Source: Princeton Weekly Bulletin June 8, 1998.
The Problem:
The difficulty with Princeton University's hiring of Peter Singer is that Dr. Singer’s views promote the killing of certain disabled newborns up to 28 days after birth. Thus, by hiring Dr. Singer, Princeton University has broken its own Commitment to the Community policy. Discussion on this issue was silenced by the University when University President Harold Shapiro wrote a page long article in the Daily Princetonian defending the appointment on grounds of academic freedom. In the meantime PSAI was being founded by the various student leaders of each sister school. The
Statement on the Hiring of Peter Singer was thus drafted and completed. From that point we have been trying to regenerate discussion of this serious and timely issue. Dr. Singer comes to Princeton University July 1, 1999 to fill his appointment. We are hoping to raise enough public awareness to this issue as to have the trustees of Princeton University rescind the decision.
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The Petition Against the Hiring of Peter Singer!
the hiring of Peter Singer at Princeton University!
Princeton Students Against Infanticide (PSAI)
