‪Peter Singer - The Great Debate: Can Science Tell us Right From Wrong?‬/nTheGreatDebate

. /nPeter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.
On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evolutionary theory and advances in neuroscience might have on traditional concepts of morality. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact, right and wrong? The panelists were psychologist Steven Pinker, author Sam Harris, philosopher Patricia Churchland, physicist Lawrence Krauss, philosopher Simon Blackburn, bioethicist Peter Singer and The Science Network's Roger Bingham. 

Recorded live at the Arizona State University Gammage auditorium. 

"The Great Debate" was sponsored by the ASU Origins Project in collaboration with the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Center for Law, Science and Innovation; the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge; and The Science Network.

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Peter Singer is also a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals." His latest books include "The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty" and "The Life You Can Save: Acting now to end world poverty." Singer was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and with Helga Kuhse, founding co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Outside academic life, he is the co-founder and president of The Great Ape Project, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. He is also president of Animal Rights International.

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