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May 13, 2007

William Crawley interviews Peter Singer





Posted by George at 5/13/2007 1 comment:
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Labels: animal welfare, bestiality, ethicists, ethics, euthanasia, infanticide, paedophilia, personhood, peter singer, philosophy

May 7, 2007

Dilbert's ethicist

Posted by George at 5/07/2007 1 comment:
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Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist, George Dvorsky has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is a contributing editor at io9, the Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the program director for the Rights of Non-Human Persons program.

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