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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


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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

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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



Professor Igor Primoratz

Ethical Issues in Security and State Sovereignty

Email: igorprim@gmail.com
Telephone +61(02) 6125-8469
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, PhD

Biography

Igor Primoratz writes on moral, political and legal philosophy. In his current research he focuses in particular on the ethics of war, where he works within the just war tradition, and on terrorism, which he considers “almost absolutely” wrong. Another central research interest at present is patriotism: How does it differ from nationalism? What are its main varieties? What are their moral credentials? He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Fields of special interest

  • Philosophy of punishment
  • Philosophy of sex
  • Patriotism and nationalism
  • The ethics of war
  • Terrorism

Publications

Books

Primoratz, I. Terrorism: A Philosophical Investigation, Cambridge: Polity Press (forthcoming).

Primorac, I. 2006. Etika na djelu. Ogledi iz primijenjene etike [Ethics at Work: Essays in Applied Ethics, in Croatian], Zagreb: KruZak.
Primorac, I. 2001. Filozofija na djelu. Rasprave i ogledi iz praktične filozofije [Philosophy at Work: Studies and Essays in Practical Philosophy, in Croatian], Zagreb: Croatian Philosophical Society.
Primoratz, I. 1999. Ethics and Sex , London and New York: Routledge.
Primoratz, I. 1997. Justifying Legal Punishment, 2nd edn., Atlantic Highlands and London: Humanity Books