CAPPE

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  • 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. 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

What's new in CAPPE publications?
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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



CAPPE

CAPPE News

 

2011

  • CAPPE would like to congratulate Holly Lawford-Smith on her new position! Holly is working  at Australian National University as a Research Fellow on an ARC project with Christian Barry and Bob Goodin entitled 'Benefiting from Injustice'.
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  • PhD Student and CAPPE staff member Adam Henschke presents paper ‘Home Invasion: What To Do When The Private Becomes Public’ in Helsinki, Revealing Privacy: Debating Understandings of Privacy Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland, 19th-20th May 2011. click here for details
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  • Read The Health Impact Fund Newsletter, April 2011
    To read newsletter click here
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  • PhD Student Madeline Kilty is involved in an advisory capacity with the workshop on children’s rights called: Children and the Australian State: Rights and Realities Workshop to be held sometime in November 2011 (exact date not decided yet). This workshop is being run by Mhairi Cowden (ANU) and Joanne Lau (ANU).
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  • PhD Student Alejandra Mancilla has published a book review Naturaleza y valor, Margarita Valdés (comp.), in Crítica 42/126 (December 2010): 79-86
    To see the review click here
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  • PhD Student Luara Ferracioli has received a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Programme.
    For more details on the post doc programme click here

 

2010

Agri_ethics
  • A workshop was organised by Professor Deirdre Lemerle together with Dr Emma Rush and Professor John Weckert, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, at CSU Wagga Wagga on 30 November and 1 December, 2010, to commence a discussion on Agricultural Ethics.
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  • Celia, a Philosophy student from University of Auckland will be in CAPPE until the end of January under ANU Summer Scholar Program.
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  • Recent paper by Gabrielle Samuel, Michael Selgelid and Ian Kerridge.Back to the future: Controlling synthetic life science trade in DNA
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  • Professor Clive Hamilton's book “Requiem for a Species” won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for best work contributing to advancing public debate.
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  • First book in the new CAPPE ANU book series. More
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  • The 17th Annual Conference of Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics was held in the University of Sydney (15th – 17th June). More
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  • Dr Michael Selgelid comments on synthetic life. More
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  • Professor Doris Schroeder considers possible solutions for life-saving drugs to the poor. More
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  • Anne Schwemkenbecher from Postdam University in Germany has joined CAPPE. Anne has a German research grant to allow her to visit and research at CAPPE for 1 year. Her field of interest is Collective responsibility and collective obligation in the context of Climate Change.
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  • Professor Christel Fricke will be visiting CAPPE from 17th February to 13th March. While visiting CAPPE, she will be writing a paper on the notion of respect (understood in the Kantian sense of intrinsic moral value). She is interested in the justification of normative judgments (ethical and aesthetic), the psychology of moral motivation, moral realism, problems of equality and justice, the theory of the emotions, semiotics, aesthetics and in the history of philosophy.
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  • Professor Steven Vanderheiden has been appointed as Professor in CAPPE. He will be joining CAPPE on May 1st.

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2009

  • Congratulations to Dr Jeremy Moss who has been awarded a future fellowship concerning climate justice.
    The Climate Justice Project will offer significant insights into the effects of climate change and adaptation policy on the key area of rural well being and energy use. The project will be able to gauge whether current and proposed carbon trading schemes are just and how in particular, Australia's climate policy interacts with the Pacific region. In addition, the project will also consider the important political issue of whether democratic participation in the formation of climate policy is required and in what ways.
  •   WHO
  • CAPPE has been designated an official World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. More
       
  • Symposium Announcement: Addiction, Identity and Responsibility. 20th Of October. More
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  • Presentations from the July Converging Technologies workshop are now available here.
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  • Adjunct Professor Jeroen van den Hoven has been awarded the World Technology Award in the category Ethics. More

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