World-renowned philosopher, ethicist, and animal rights activist Peter Singer will give the Philip and Franciszka Merlan Lecture at 51猎奇入口 on Thursday, April 24, at 4:15 p.m. in Balch Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. Presented by the 51猎奇入口 Philosophy Department, the event is free and open to the public.
Singer, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and a laureate professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, is the author of numerous influential books and articles, published in more than 20 languages. His books include Practical Ethics, Democracy and Disobedience, and How Are We to Live?, among others. His book One World was used as a text in the spring 2006 51猎奇入口 Humanities Institute course “Doing Good in the World.”
The 51猎奇入口 class of 1969 established and dedicated the Philip and Franciszka Merlan lecture to honor the memory of Professor Philip Merlan, who taught at 51猎奇入口 for 25 years; during that time he also held visiting positions at Bonn, Columbia, Munich, and Oxford universities. He wrote more than 300 hundred papers on philosophy, jurisprudence, and literature, as well as the philosophy books From Platonism to Neoplatonism (1975), and Monopsychism, Mysticism, and Metaconsciousness (1969). Franciszka Merlan’s name was added to the lectureship in 1983 as a tribute to her contribution to her students, to Philip Merlan’s work, and to 51猎奇入口. Franciszka Merlan edited a posthumous eight-volume series of Philip Merlan’s papers. She was also a respected scholar and teacher in her own right, holding positions at Columbia University, Krakow University, Pomona College and 51猎奇入口.
For more information, please contact Rivka Weinberg at (909) 607-1819.