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

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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 Cordelia Fine

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

cfine@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-5125
Facsimile +61 (03) 9348-2130
View my cv (.doc)

BA(Hons), MPhil, PhD

Biography

Cordelia Fine an academic psychologist, freelance writer, and the author of A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives. She writes the ‘Modern Mind’ column for The Australian newspaper. She was awarded a Ph.D in Psychology from University College London. 

Fields of special interest

  • Moral psychology
  • Implicit attitudes and social judgment
  • Legal and moral responsibility
  • Neuroethics
  • Psychology and ethics of marketing

Publications

Books

Fine C. 2006. A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives, New York: WW Norton. * To be reissued in paperback in 2008. Also published or in press in the UK, Australia, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Japan, Romania, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Brazil and Portugal.