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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

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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 Edward Spence

Business and Professional Ethics
IT and Nanotechnology: Ethics of Emergent Technology

e.h.spence@gw.utwente.nl
Telephone +31 53 489 2308
Facsimilie +31 53 489 4799

BA(Hons), PhD

Biography

Edward Spence is a senior lecturer in moral philosophy and professional ethics in the School of Communication, Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Canberra. He is currently working as a Research Fellow (2006 to 2009) on the VICI Research Project on the Evaluation of the Cultural Quality of New Media at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
 

Fields of special interest

  • Professional Ethics
  • Media Ethics
  • Corruption in the Old Corporate Media and the New Media

 

Publications

Books

Spence, E. Ethics Within Reason: A Neo-Gewithian Approach (2006). Maryland: Lexington Books (a division of Rowman and Littlefield, USA).

Spence, E. (lead author), & Van Heekeren, B. (2005). Advertising Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA: Pearson/Prentice Hall

Miller, S., Roberts, P., & Spence, E. (2005). Corruption and Anti-corruption: An Applied Philosophical Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA: Pearson/Prentice Hall