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http://egs.edu/ Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek conducting a workshop about utilitarian ethics and Henry Sidgwick, discussing several ethical thought experiments with students, expounding their contemporary formulations of utilitarianism. Other subjects discussed include reason, rationality, obligations to the global poor, charity, aid, guilt, consumption, and aid effectivity. This lecture is part 5 of 8 for the total seminar on utilitarian ethics given by Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek at EGS in 2012. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2012 Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. Peter Albert David Singer, B.Phil. (graduate degree in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, England), is a renown Australian-born Jewish philosopher born on July 6th 1946. For over thirty years he has challenged traditional notions of applied ethics. He is world famous for giving the impetus to the animal rights movement. Today he holds the chair of ethics at Princeton University. Singer has also held twice the chair of philosophy in his native land at Monash University where he also founded the Centre for Human Bioethics. Peter Singer is a rationalist philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition of utilitarianism. He teaches "practical ethics", which he defines as the application of a morality to practical problems based on philosophical thinking rather than on religious beliefs. In 2009 Singer would make it to the Time magazine list of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". His 1975 book "Animal Liberation" would greatly influence the modern movements of animal welfare. There he argues against speciesism, which is the discrimination between beings on the sole basis of their species, and in this way it is almost always in practice in favor of members of the human race against non-human animals. In 1977 he would be appointed to the chair of philosophy at Monash University where he was to become the first director of the Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996 he would run unsuccessfully as a Green candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004 he would be recognized as the Australian humanist of the year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. In 1971 Singer wrote an article entitled "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" which remains today one of his most known philosophical essays. In 2009 he wrote "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty". There Peter Singer demonstrates that for the first time in its history humanity has the financial and material resources to eradicate poverty worldwide. In 2011 he re-published one of his most important works, "Practical Ethics" (1979), which continues to be influential today. Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Ph.D., is a Polish utilitarian philosopher and lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at Lodz University in Poland where she also completed her dissertation. Professor Lazari-Radek also teaches an intensive summer seminar on utilitarian ethics at the European Graduate School (EGS) together with the famous applied ethics philosopher, also one of the animal rights founder, Peter Singer. She would do two Master's degrees, also at Lodz University, one in English Literature (2000) and one in Philosophy (2001). Lazari-Radek's doctoral dissertation (2007) examined the work of the utilitarian English philosopher and economist Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900), whose work on work has had a lasting impact, especially in economics. Her dissertation was entitled Good and Reason in the Moral Philosophy of Henry Sidgwick (2007). Professor Lazari-Radek's research since then has focused on a plethora of ethical issues, including bioethics, medical ethics, the ethics of aid, the ethical aspects of globalization, as well as both the ethics of journalism and the ethics of research.