Upcoming Events
2010 Conferences and Workshops
PROMOTING DUAL USE ETHICS(28th-29th January)
'Inaugural Event of the Newly Designated WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University'.
28-29 January 2010. Common Room, University House at The Australian National University. Co-organized by Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), the National Centre for Biosecurity, and University of Exeter as part of a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Enhancement project on “Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual Use Bioethics”.
Click here for the Program.
CAPPE 10 Anniversary
On Wednesday 16th December 2009 the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics celebrated its 10th anniversary. The celebration took place at University House, in The Australian National University
Before the official opening of the event the graduate students presented their posters in the Hall Foyer. The posters showed in a condensed but imaginative way the different research topics that students are undertaking.
- biological weapons threats
- naturally-occurring disease outbreak disasters
- safety and security of laboratory research on pathogenic micro-organisms
- the relationship between infectious disease patterns, public health capacity, state functioning and violent conflict.
The opening of the event started with Professor Tom Campbell, Director of CAPPE CSU, offering a warm welcome to all attendees and introducing the guest speakers of the first session Public Ethics.
Professor Margaret Sheil, FRACI C Chem, CEO Australian Research Council was the first one to talk in this session, stressing how well CAPPE has been doing throughout its 10 years and the great outcomes CAPPE has achieved regarding the quality of the research it undertakes. The second speaker was the Hon. Michael Kirby who talked about a charter of rights for Australia. During the Q&A session, Kirby approached the public (literally leaving the podium) in order to discuss with the audience their views on such an interesting topic. Finally Professor The Hon Kim Beazley AC, who is about to take the position as ambassador to the US, talked about the importance of ethics in politics.
The second session Institutionalising Ethics was chaired by Mr. Andrew Alexandra (CAPPE, University of Melbourne), who introduced the two speakers of this session. The first speaker was Professor Seumas Miller (CSU and ANU) who talked on Integrity Systems. The second speaker was Dr. Rob Floyd, from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, who talked about the ethical dilemmas that science and security bring to the fore , acknowledging the consultancy work done by CAPPE on this matter for the Department of Prime Minister.
The third session was on the Health Impact Fund and was chaired by Tony Cody (CAPPE, University of Melbourne). The first speaker was Professor Thomas Pogge (CAPPE, ANU) who talked about ethics and incentives regarding the health impact fund. The second speaker was Professor Judith Whitworth (AC, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU) who talked about the potential the health impact fund could have for public health.
The event closed with a dinner for all CAPPE members and special guests. Jeanette Kennett, a former Principal Research Fellow of CAPPE, who talked about the role of women in CAPPE; the second speech of the night, was carried out by the Deputy Vice-chancellor Ross Chambers, who is also a member of the Board of the Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and talked about the beginning of CAPPE
The day was a celebration for the first ten years of CAPPE, a celebration for the different features that make CAPPE not only the largest concentration of applied philosophers in the world but a unique centre in professional and applied ethics. As Seumas Miller the Foundation Director of CAPPE says—“it is pleasing to see over time that CAPPE has built important research relationships with business industry and government both in Australia and overseas”. Or as Jonathan Herington a PhD student working on infectious disease emergencies and security also highlights –“CAPPE brings the best in academic philosophy and ethics and brings that to the public sphere”.
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Congratulations CAPPE!!
2009 Conferences and Workshops
PATRIOTISM: FOR AND AGAINST (8th December)
To be held on Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 9:00 to 12:30, in the Arts Meeting Room, Haydon-Allen Building, Australian National University, Canberra.
It is not open to the general public; those interested in attending should contact Igor Primoratz at iprim@unimelb.edu.au. The papers to be discussed will be distributed in advance by e-mail.
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Addiction, Identity & Responsibility: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Social Science, Philosophy and Law (20th October 2009)
To be held at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management
Macquarie University
Amphitheatre Room 103
99 Talavera Road, North Ryde, Sydney
This is a free and open event, however registrations will be strictly limited to 50. To guarantee a seat please RSVP to Dr Craig Fry by 18 September 2009.
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Converging Technologies: Some Pressing Ethical Issues (22nd July)
To be held in the Arts Meeting Room on the Ground Level in the Haydon-Allen Building, ANU.
Click here to see the program.
Click here for the abstracts.
Click here for Greg Tegart's presentation.
Click here for Alfred Nordmann's presentation.
Click here for Michael Selgelid's presentation.
Click here for Hans J. Griesser's presentation.
Click here for Chennupati Jagadish's presentation.
Click here for Astrid E. Schwarz's presentation.
Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics National Conference 2009 - Professions in the Community (9th - 11th June)
The 16th annual AAPAE conference, held at Best Western Centretown, Goulburn, NSW, will commence on Tuesday the 9th of June and will finish on Thursday the 11th of June.
The due date for submission (of both refereed and non-refereed papers) is the 15th of May. Non-refereed papers require only the submission of an abstract rather than a completed paper.
Accepted refereed track papers will be placed on the conference CD. Non-refereed track papers can be revised post-conference and submitted for the peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings (to be published in the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics).
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Workshop: Rescuing Human Rights (20th - 21st of March)
This Workshop is hosted by the School of Law, King's College London and the Charles Sturt University branch of CAPPE.
Prof. Tom Campbell will be speaking on Summation and Publication Plans.
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Conference: Future of Financial Regulation (30th - 31st of March)
This confernence is hosted by the University of Glasgow Law School and concerns the regulatory implications of the credit crisis.
Christian Barry, Prof. Seumas Miller, Prof. Justin O'Brien and Prof. Thomas Pogge will all be taking part in this conference.
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Conference: Smith in Glasgow '09 (31st March - 2nd April 2009)
This conference celebrates the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's influential book The Theory of Moral Sentiments and will centre around four themes: (1) Scotland and the enlightenment (2) Culture, literature and the arts (3) Philosophy and (4) The social sciences.
Prof. Tom Campbell will be speaking on Smith and Moral Philosophy.
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2008 Events
MELBOURNE EVENT
Seminars
In collaboration with University of Melbourne Philosophy Department and the Castan Centre at Monash University
4 September 2008, 4:15 pm in the Moot Court Room, South West Corner of the Old (Law) Quad, University of Melbourne
Professor Marilyn Friedman (CAPPE/Washington, St Louis): Understanding as a Requirement for Blaming
4 September 2008, 6pm at the Castan Centre, 472 Bourke Street
Professor Larry May (CAPPE/Washington, St Louis): Habeas Corpus, Procedural Rights and Fundamental Law
SYDNEY EVENT
National Centre for Biosecurity: Signing Ceremony
On 2 September 2008, the National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB) officially became a joint-enterprise between the Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney. This important event was inaugurated by the signing of an agreement between the two universities by Professor Ian Chubb, Vice Chancellor of ANU, and Dr Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
CAPPE's Dr. Michael Selgelid is a founding member of the NCB and will serve as Deputy Director of the ANU node of the Centre; Professor Seumas Miller is on the NCB advisory board.
The signing ceremony will be followed by the launch of a book, Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences authored by Miller and Selgelid. Professor Miller will be available at the ceremony to provide some comments on the book and to sign copies. He will be introduced by Professor Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney.
Date: Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Time: 3 - 5pm
Venue: Sutherland Room, Holme Building, University of Sydney (Main Campus)
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Some information on the National Centre for Biosecurity and this new collaboration is below:
The new NCB’s chief aim is to facilitate greater academic and policy engagement with biosecurity challenges facing Australia and its region. Biosecurity, as the NCB defines it, is concerned with infectious disease threats to human and animal health, encompassing:
NCB deals with biosecurity problems of great importance to Australia and our regional neighbours. East Asia is a flashpoint for disease emergencies and Australia plays a critical role as a repository of technical knowledge and expertise. The NCB enhances this capacity by dealing specifically with biosecurity issues of importance to the region (e.g. Avian influenza, SARS).
The NCB will focus on the research and policy questions of relevance to business and government. An important aspect of our mission is engaging with policymakers and the wider community, including business leaders, in helping them to understand emerging infectious disease threats and other biosecurity concerns.
The NCB is unique within the region. No other program which deals with the security implications of infectious disease in such an interdisciplinary fashion exists within the region. The NCB is the first of its kind, and seeks to explore regional issues that European and US-based biosecurity research has so far ignored.
The NCB includes a wide range of expertise across a diverse set of faculties from both universities. Faculty members with strong research programs provide input from the disciplines of business, veterinary science, law, epidemiology, ethics, public health, international politics, and microbiology. The program is truly interdisciplinary in its mission and in its approach to solving biosecurity challenges.
The collaborative nature of the NCB allows it to bring to bear the broadest and deepest pool of expertise to regional biosecurity problems. Both the Australian National University and the University of Sydney have complementary strengths in areas such as veterinary health, epidemiology, microbiology, international politics and ethics; combined expertise which is essential to solving complex biosecurity problems.
For additional information, see: www.biosecurity.edu.au
CANBERRA EVENTS
The freedom paradox. Towards a post-secular ethics - Professor Clive Hamilton
5 August 2008, Co-op Bookshop, Union Court, Australian National University.
Launched by Justice Michael Kirby. Click to download an flyer
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More about The freedom paradox. Towards a post-secular ethics
Criminal Justice Ethics Workshop: Criminalization
On Thursday 3 July 2008, CAPPE Canberra sponsored a half-day workshop that centred
around Professor Douglas
Husak's recently published Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law (OUP, 2008), and coincided with his visit to CAPPE. Husak (Philosophy, Rutgers University)
argues that justifiable criminalization requires the satisfaction of a set of several internal and external constraints, viz.
Internal
(1) nontrivial harm or evil;
(2) wrongfulness;
(3) desert;
(4) burden of proof
External
(5) substantial governmental interest;
(6) directly advances the government's objective;
(7) no more extensive than necessary;
Three paper assessing different aspects of Husak's work were presented:
Dr. Robert Young (La Trobe University): "Douglas Husak and the malum prohibitum Offence
of Money Laundering
Professor Heidi M. Hurd (University of Illinois Law School): "Paternalism on pain of Punishment"
Professor Michael S. Moore (University of Illinois Law School): "A Tale of Two Theories"
Douglas Husak responded to each of the papers prior to a fruitful general discussion among the 25-30 participants. The papers will be revised and, along with additional papers by Victor Tadro (Warwick)
and A.P. Simester (Singapore/Cambridge), will be published in a symposium, along with a formal response by Husak in Criminal Justice Ethics in 2009.
Subsequent to his CAPPE Canberra visit, Husak visited CAPPE Melbourne.
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(left to right) Professor John Kleinig (CAPPE), Professor Douglas Husak (Rutgers), Professor Michael S. Moore (Illinois), Professor Tom Campbell (Director - CAPPE), Dr. Robert Young (La Trobe), Professor Heidi M. Hurd (Illinois)
Saskia Hufnagel (PhD student, Law, ANU), Professor Tom Campbell (Director - CAPPE)
Professor Douglas Husak (Rutgers)
(left to right) Professor John Kleinig (CAPPE), Professor Douglas Husak (Rutgers), Professor Michael S. Moore (Illinois), Professor Tom Campbell (Director - CAPPE), Dr. Robert Young (La Trobe), Professor Heidi M. Hurd (Illinois)
Morality and Political Violence - Professor C.A.J. (Tony) Coady
Innovations Building, The Australian National University, 5 May 2008
Launched by Professor Hugh White - Head of Strategic & Defence Studies, The Australian National University. More about the launch
Hugh White, 'Realism & the Value of Peace', Lecture given at the launch of Tony Coady's Morality and Political Violence, 5 May 2008
Tony Coady discusses 'Morality and Political Violence' - The Philosopher's Zone 24 April 2008 (MP3 - Right Click 'Save Target As')
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ET GOVICT2008 - A Conference on the Ethical Governance of ICT and the Role of Professional Bodies
University House, Australian National University, 1-2 May 2008. This conference has been supported by The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, The Australian Computer Society, ARC Governance Research Network, The Australian National University, Charles Sturt University and UNESCO. Program Speakers
When the Music Stops: Private Equity, Securitisation and the Future of Capital Markets
University of Sydney Law School, Friday, 14th of December. More
Private Equity, Securitisation and Corporate Governance Roundtable
Freehills Moot Court, College of Law, ANU, Wednesday, 12th of December. Download Flyer Download MP3
Negotiating the Sacred IV: Toleration, Education and the Curriculum
1-2 September 2007, Research School for the Humanities, Australian National University. This conference has been supported by the ANU Research School for the Humanities, the Freilich Foundation, GovNet (an Australian Research Council Research Network) and CAPPE (an ARC funded Special Research Centre). More
Moral Cognition and Meta-Ethics Conference
31st August - 2nd September 2007 in Sydney, Australia. More
The Governance of Science and Technology
A Joint GovNet/CAPPE/UNESCO Conference, 9-10th August 2007 at the Australian National University.
The Governance of Science & Technology
Ethical Questions for NGOs Involved In International Relief and Development
A GovNet/CAPPE sponsored Workshop 18-20 July 2007, University of Melbourne.
NGOs Workshop Announcement
The Dynamics of Capital Market Governance: Evaluating the Conflicting and Conflating Roles of Compliance, Regulation, Ethics and Accountability
An ESRC/GovNet Sponsored Workshop, Australian National University
14-15 March 2007. More
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