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  • University of Melbourne

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.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Matthew Rimmer on Intellectual Property and Clean Technology

 

WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics

WHO

 

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CAPPE NEWS

 

New Book Series

First book in the new CAPPE ANU book series More

 

Conference

25 – 26 August 2010
Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict.More

 

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday August 4th- John Dryzek Toward a Deliberative Global Citizens' Assembly
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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