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

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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



Clive Hamilton

Business and Professional Ethics
Justice and the Human Good

mail at clivehamilton.net.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-8467
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, BEc (Hons), DPhil

Biography

Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at CAPPE and holds the newly created Vice-Chancellor's Chair at Charles Sturt University. He was the Founder and for 14 years the Executive Director of The Australia Institute, a public interest think tank. He is well known in Australia as a public intellectual and for his contributions to public policy debate. His extensive publications include writings on climate change policy, overconsumption, welfare policy and the effects of commercialisation. His latest book The Freedom Paradox: Towards a post-secular ethics (Allen & Unwin) was launched In Canberra by Justice Michael Kirby on 5 August. More about the book launch
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Fields of special interest

  • Post-secular ethics
  • Ethics of climate change
  • Consumption and identity formation
  • Idealist philosophy

Major Publications

The Freedom Paradox: Towards a post-secular ethics, Allen & Unwin, 2008

Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change, Black Inc., 2007

Silencing Dissent, edited with Sarah Maddison, Allen & Unwin, 2007

What's Left? The death of social democracy, 'Quarterly Essay', Black Inc., 2006

Affluenza, with Richard Denniss, Allen & Unwin, 2005

Growth Fetish, Allen & Unwin, 2003