Biggar & Singer Debate in Standpoint

7 07 2011

Following the recent conference, Standpoint magazine convened a dialogue between Peter Singer and Nigel Biggar. Hosted by Standpoint editor, Daniel Johnson, the conversation spans a variety of topics, including the value of human and animal life, the morality of killing, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and others.

Standpoint: We have just been attending a conference in Oxford entitled Christian Ethics Engages Peter Singer. Perhaps we should kick off with a question that you, Nigel, asked at the end of the conference. On what grounds, Peter, would you give greater weight to the interests, the preferences, theneeds of the Jewish victims in the Holocaust, rather than the Nazi perpetrators? …  Read the debate in full.





Christian Ethics & Peter Singer

30 05 2011

This year’s spring conference, Christian Ethics Engages Peter Singer, brought together leading utilitarian and Christian speakers to discuss issues ranging from the treatment of animals to climate change and poverty. Over 100 attendees from across the globe met over two days to hear papers and participating in lively Q&A with the speakers.

The speakers included Peter Singer, John Hare, Eric Gregory, Lisa Sowle Cahill, and others. Full details can be found in the conference programme, and a complete archive is online, with full audio and video recordings of all six sessions.

Coverage of the conference can be found in various blogs, as well as the Guardian and The Tablet. During the conference, Standpoint magazine conducted an interview with Nigel Biggar and Peter Singer to be published in their next issue.

View the complete Conference Archive here.








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