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



Associate Professor Jeanette Kennett

Criminal Justice Ethics
Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
Justice and the Human Good

Jeanette.Kennett@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-3450
Facsimilie +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, PhD

Biography

Jeanette Kennett works in the areas of moral psychology, ethical theory, and the self. In recent years, she has been Chief Investigator for two ARC Discovery Grants: “The Normative Value of Unified Agency” and “The Structure of Moral Reasoning: Hume, Kant, and Evidence from Pychopathology and Neuroscience.” Dr Kennett currently holds an ARC Discovery Grant with Dr Neil Levy titled "Neuroethics: The Practical and the Philosophical".

Fields of special interest

  • Moral cognition and development
  • Mental disorder and moral agency
  • Legal and moral responsibility
  • Relational identity
  • Ethical issues in institutional and social responses to addiction and mental illness
  • Ethical issues in Behavioural genetics

Publications

Books

Kennett J. 2001. Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology, Oxford: Clarendon Press. * Reissued in paperback 2003