CAPPE

  • CSU
  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

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

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

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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

Wednesday, May 16th, Stuart Green (Rutgers), Thieving, Receiving, and Failing to Return Lost Property.

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Conferences

 

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

Past News



Adam Henschke

IT and Nanotechnology: Ethics of Emergent Technology

ahenschke@csu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6169 4131
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

BApSc, GradDipBioethics, MBioethics, MAppliedEthics

Biography

Adam Henschke started his academic career in science and worked as a research scientist, then moved in areas of science and ethics, focussing on genetic technologies and bioethics. He then worked and studied overseas in bioethics and applied ethics. He is finishing up his PhD this year at CAPPE, for Charles Sturt University. His research assistant work covers grant applications, conference organisation, and general research. He is also involved in teaching and coordinating courses for CAPPE. His own research focuses on philosophy and ethics of technology, information and identity, and bioethics more generally.

Fields of special interest

  • Privacy
  • Intellectual property
  • Ethical Theory
  • Biosecurity
  • Agricultural Ethics
  • Public Communication of Ethics