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CURRENT RESEARCH

Emerging and Converging Technologies Program:

    This program deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies that combine with or add to existing technologies, including ethical issues in bio/nanotechnology, computing and IT. More

Poverty Program:

    This program focuses on building an ethically and empirically based account of what development is, what standards it ought to use, and the like. Issues addressed include the measurement of poverty and global minimal labour standards. More

Health Program:

    This program will conduct research in relation to a range of interconnected ethical issues in the public health domain. More

Ecology Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Economy Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Security Program:

    This program focuses on the ethical dimensions of a range of current domestic and international security problems, including ethical issues pertaining to terrorism, crime, and humanitarian intervention. More


WHAT'S NEW

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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

PhD Candidate Adam Henschke Australia Talks on Privacy.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions

 

CAPPE Canberra Seminar

CAPPE Canberra Seminars will start for 2012 in February. Watch this space!

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Conferences

 

Workshop: Designing Just Institutions for Global Climate Governance (June 30 - 1 July). Click here for details

Past News



Advisory Board

 

In general, the Advisory Board provides advice to the Centre and partner universities in relation top research and research training in the various fields of applied philosophy and public ethics.

The current members are pictured above at our 2011 AGM:
The Honourable Margaret Reid AO

Chair

Professor David Biles OAM

Professorial Associate, Charles Sturt University

Professor Ross Chambers

Deputy Vice- Chancellor, Charles Sturt University

Professor Adam Graycar

Dean of the Australian National Institute of Public Policy, Australian National University

Reverend Professor James Haire AM

Executive Director, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture

Ms Jane Halton PSM

Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

Hon Gareth Evans AO QC

Chancellor, The Australian National University

Andrew Alexandra

Director (Melbourne Division), Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Greg Restall

Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Melbourne

The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG

High Court of Australia

Dr Bernard Lochtenberg

Deputy Chancellor, University of Melbourne

Professor Tom Campbell

Director (CSU Division), Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne

Professor Seumas Miller

Director (ANU Division), Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University

Mr John Ridge AM

Executive Director, Australian Computer Society Foundation

Laurie Willett AO

Chancellor, Charles Sturt University