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CURRENT RESEARCH

Criminal Justice Ethics

Police Corruption
Loyalty, Whistleblowing and Witness Protection More..

Business and
Professional Ethics

Corporate Responsibility for Economic and Ethical Sustainability
Regulating Communication in the Professions More..

Ethical Issues
in Biotechnology

The Ethics of Life-extending Technology
The Ethics of Sex Selection More..

IT and Nanotechnology
Ethics of Emergent
Technology

E-Government
The Precautionary Principle in Nanotechnology More..

Political Violence and
State Sovereignty

Morality of "Dirty Hands" as an Issue in Political Leadership
Ethics, Technology and the "New Wars" More..

Welfare Ethics

Obligations of Individual Citizens of Wealthy Nations in Relation to International Poverty
The Obligations of Welfare Recipients More..

WHAT'S NEW

What's new in CAPPE publications?

MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Professor Justin O'Brien

'The crisis of failing strategies'

Professor Larry May

Just War Theory and Chemical/Biological Weapons

Professor Tony Coady

Morality and Political Violence

UPCOMING
EVENTS

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Why Social Justice Matters - Associate Prof. Ian Hunt (Flinders)
Monday 19th May 2008 More....

CAPPE UniMelb Seminar

Justification & 'The Reasonable' - Dr. Steve Curry (CAPPE)
Wednesday 21st May 2008 More....

Criminal Justice Ethics Workshop: Criminalization

CAPPE, ANU
Thursday 3rd July 2008 More....

Globalising Ethics & Politics

Prospective ANU Research student workshop
24th-26th July 2008
More....

NEW PUBLICATIONS

ETHICS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

John Kleinig

John Kleinig looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system in a liberal democratic society and those who work within that system. Kleinig's discussion is both philosophically acute and grounded in institutional realities, and will enable students to engage with ethical questions which they will encounter - whether as criminal justice professionals or as reflective citizens. More...

DEALING FAIRLY WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEBT

Edited by Christian Barry, Barry Herman and Lydia Tomitova

In this important new publication, philosophers, theologians, lawyers and economists examine questions related to how to deal fairly with the over-indebted governments of developing countries. More...

POSTGRAD COURSES

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS

CAPPE's unique Master of Arts in Professional and Applied Ethics is designed for those working in government, industry, and the professions, and is a pathway to a Ph.D. program in Professional and Applied Ethics. It will be available to students worldwide via enriched online delivery as well as in person in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne.

The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) can also provide supervision to PhD, MPhil and MA by research students across a wide range of topics. More

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

Scholarships tenable in 2008 are available at each of the universities. More

NEW STAFF JOIN CAPPE

Professor Marilyn Friedman

Professor Marilyn Friedman has an international reputation in social and political philosophy, ethics and feminist theory. Professor Friedman joins CAPPE as Research Professor of Social Justice at Charles Sturt University. Read more

Professor Doris Schroeder

Professor Doris Schroeder's research is focused in the areas of applied ethics and political philosophy, specifically questions of international justice and human rights. Professor Schroeder joins CAPPE at the University of Melbourne. Read more

WHO WE ARE

who we are The 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. More....

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

who we are New Issue of Res Publica out now.

Andrew Alexandra et al Private Military and Security Companies (Routledge) More....

Tony Coady Morality and Political Violence (Cambridge) More....

Thomas Pogge World Poverty and Human Rights - Second Edition (Polity) More....

Steve Clarke & Justin Oakley (ed) Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability (Cambridge) More....

RECENT AWARDS

BUPA Foundation Specialist Research Grant Thomas Pogge
Just Rules for Incentivizing Pharmaceutical Innovations
ARC Linkage Grant Jeremy Moss, Kevin White Health, Freedom, and Independent Contracting
ARC Discovery Grant Tom Campbell
An Australian Alternative to Bills of Rights
More recently awarded grants....