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News: Summer 1999

Princeton welcomes Peter Singer • Wittgenstein in burglary shock • Philosopher wages war • Doctors want your body — News Editor: Derrick Farnham

Philosopher Hired Under Protest

The appointment of a new bioethics professor at Princeton University was met by over a hundred protesters. Despite the protest, the University maintains that past academic work and the contribution to be made to scholarship and the ethical debate justify the appointment.

Peter Singer will begin in July as the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the university’s Center for Human Values. At issue is his controversial view that parents have the right to euthanize severely handicapped newborn children.

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