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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 based on the recent symposium.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:

Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration

CAPPE NEWS

WHO

CAPPE has been designated an official World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. More

 

Professor Christel Fricke from the University of Oslo will be visiting CAPPE from 17th February to 13th March More

 

 

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday March 10th - Christian Barry: On the hierarchical approach to moral uncertainty More

 




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