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CURRENT RESEARCH

Criminal Justice Ethics

    Criminal Justice Ethics covers a range of concrete and mid-level problems encountered by police, courts, and corrections. More

Business and
Professional Ethics

    Business and Professional Ethics deals with normative issues relating to the conduct and regulation of business. More

Ethical Issues
in Biotechnology

    Ethical Issues in Biotechnology examines the use of and access to new knowledge and techniques. More

IT and Nanotechnology
Ethics of Emergent
Technology

    Information technology and Nanotechnology deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies. More

Political Violence and
State Sovereignty

    Ethical Issues of Political Violence and State Sovereignty addresses central philosophical issues of political violence, especially the ethics of war. More

Justice and the Human Good

    Justice and the Human Good focuses on the relation between applied ethics and academic moral and political philosophy as well as the justice of social institutions. More


WHAT'S NEW

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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Michael Selgelid ABC podcast Addiction Free will & Self Control based on the recent symposium.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:

Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration

CAPPE NEWS

WHO

CAPPE has been designated an official World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. More

 

Professor Christel Fricke from the University of Oslo will be visiting CAPPE from 17th February to 13th March More

 

 

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday March 10th - Christian Barry: On the hierarchical approach to moral uncertainty More

 




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