CAPPE

  • CSU
  • University of Melbourne

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.

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.

Health Program:

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

Ecology Program:

    This program examines a range of issues in environmental ethics, including ethical issues related to existing and potential anthropogenic climate change.

Economy Program:

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

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.

     

WHAT'S NEW

What's new in CAPPE publications?
View Publications, Click here

MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Professor Thomas Pogge TEDxCanberra: Medicine for the 99%.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions


CAPPE Canberra Seminar

CAPPE Canberra seminars will resume in February 2012

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Conferences

Ethics in Financial Transactions & Society(17-18 Sept). Click here for details

 

Other CAPPE News

Cappe. The largest 
centre of applied philosophers

  

 

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Global Financial Crisis

    Eds. Dobos, N., Barry, C., and Pogge,T. More

POSTGRAD COURSES

New Taught Postgraduate Courses

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS

CAPPE's unique Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) is designed for those working in government, industry and the professions, and is a pathway to a Ph.D. in Professional and Applied Ethics. The program is available to students worldwide via online delivery or in person in Canberra and Melbourne. More
CAPPE can also provide supervision to PhD, MPhil and MA by research students across a wide range of topics. More
Postgraduate Research Scholarship Click Here

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Network of Degrees in Ethics, Human Rights and Institutions
This new program provides generous scholarships for Australian students to do part of their degree on an exchange to Europe and for European students to do the same on an exchange to Australia. More

 

 

 

NEW STAFF JOIN CAPPE

Seeking New Director

CAPPE is seeking a new Director. Full time, Fixed term – Five (5) years (to be held concurrently with a continuing appointment as Professor).

 

The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) is an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre that commenced operations in 2000 and is now one of the world’s leading research centres in professional and applied ethics.


As Director, CAPPE, you will be responsible for leading an internationally recognised team of researchers in the area of Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. We are looking for a candidate with a PhD in Philosophy or an equivalent doctorate in a cognate area with a strong research track record in one or more fields of professional and applied ethics. To be successful in this role you will have a background in university teaching/postgraduate supervision and curriculum development together with significant budget management and staff management experience. Your influential leadership techniques and exceptional communication and networking skills will enable you to lead, supervise and manage CSU’s contribution to CAPPE within the context of the 2011-2015 CSU strategic plan.
This is an exciting and rare opportunity to lead a well established, high profile and internationally recognised research centre from any one of a number of CSU’s campus locations.

 

Applicants are expected to apply online and address the selection criteria listed in the position description. Applications close: 04 March 2012

 

For more information about this opportunity, including compensation details, Click Here.

 

Please direct any inquires Here.

WHO WE ARE

who we areThe Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics is the world's largest concentration of applied philosophers. Spanning three of Australia's most prestigious universities, our purpose is to connect rigorous philosophical thinking with policy input, community discussion, and professional aims. Click here for information concerning our academic staff. Click here for information concerning our international collaborations.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

who we are

Edited by Michael Selgelid, et al. Infectious Disease Ethics More

Edward H. Spence, Andrew Alexandra, et al. Media, Markets, and Morals More

Edited by Tom Campbell, et al. The Legal Protection of Human Rights:Sceptical Essays More

Larry May Global Justice and Due Process More

New edition of AJPAE journal available now More

RECENT AWARDS

ARC Discovery Grant Dr CH Barry; Dr GE Overland; et al. Benefiting from injustice More

ARC Discovery Grant A/Prof N Levy; Dr DB Cohen Challenges to moral responsibility More

ARC Linkage Grant Seumas Miller, Justin O'Brien et al. The future of financial regulation More
ARC Discovery Grant Prof CA Coady. Humanitarian Intervention and the conflict between national and international responsibility More