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

What's new in CAPPE publications?
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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


Associate Professor Jeanette Kennett

Criminal Justice Ethics
Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
Welfare Ethics

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

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