Global Ethics Lecture – Professor Peter Singer
Biography
Peter Singer has been bestowed the tag of “world’s most influential living philosopher” by journalists. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. Some of his other well-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 (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), Ethics in the Real World, and Why Vegan?
Global Ethics Lecture - Pandemic Ethics: 5 Lessons
Date: Thursday, 24 August 2023
Time: 5.00pm
Venue: River Room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Abstract
In this talk, the five lessons Prof Singer will talk about are on allocating ICU beds, using human volunteers for challenge trials, lockdowns, whether to make vaccines mandatory, and preventing future pandemics.
Summary Report
Professor Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, delivered the second Global Ethics Lecture organized by the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics recently, on 24 August 2023. He highlighted five lessons to be taken away from the COVID-19 pandemic, in the areas of: (i) Allocating ICU beds, (ii) Using human volunteers for challenge trials, (iii) Lockdowns, (iv) Vaccine mandates and distribution, and (v) Preventing future pandemics.
About the writer
Neal Ryan Rui Yang Friets is a first-year PHD student at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.