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

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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


Dr Jeremy Shearmur

Welfare Ethics

Jeremy.Shearmur@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-2792
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-4490

BSc, MSc, PhD

Biography

Jeremy Shearmur is Head of Philosophy, ANU Faculty of Arts. He received his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics, where he also worked for eight years as assistant to Karl Popper. His researches the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, political philosophy and history of political thought.

Fields of special interest

  • Karl Popper, mid-twentieth century social and political theory