CAPPE

  • ANU
  • CSU
  • University of Melbourne

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?
View Publications, Click here

MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

Professors Hugh White & Tony Coady

'Realism & the Value of Peace' Lecture given to launch Morality and Political Violence by Tony Coady

Dr Michael Selgelid

Ethics in the Public Realm: Drug-resistant tuberculosis

UPCOMING
EVENTS

CAPPE ANU Seminar

The Welfarist Account of Disability - Professor Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
Thursday 17th July 2008 More

CAPPE UniMelb Seminar

Professor Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 16th July 2008 More

Globalising Ethics & Politics

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


Dr Christopher Wellman

Criminal Justice Ethics

cwellman@csu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-8985
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.doc)

BA, PhD

Biography

Christopher Wellman works in ethics, specializing in political and legal philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. In addition to his CAPPE appointment, he is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.

Fields of special interest

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Legal Philosophy
  • Applied Ethics

Publications

Books

Wellman, C.H. 2005. A Theory of Secession:   The Case for Political Self-Determination, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wellman, C.H. and Simmons, J. 2005.   Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?   Cambridge:   Cambridge University Press.
Cohen, A.I. and Wellman, C.H. (eds) 2005.   Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics , Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Frey, R.G. and Wellman, C.H. (eds) 2003.   A Companion to Applied Ethics , Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.