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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


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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

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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



Dr John Hadley

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

Ethical Issues in Political Violence and State Sovereignty

jhadley@csu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6338-4520
Facsimile +61 (02) 6338-4409
View my cv (.pdf)

BA(Hons), PhD

Biography

John Hadley is presently researching the extension of self-defence theory to non-human animals, the ethics of veterinary expenditure, and the moral importance of dissident or non-mainstream opinion. He is lecturer in Communication Ethics in the School of Communication, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst.

Fields of special interest

  • Animal ethics, particularly the animal rights/environmental ethics debate
  • Liberal property theory
  • Communication ethics, particularly Mill's free-speech theory and dialogic public relations models in biomedical research

Publications

Journal Articles

Hadley J. Forthcoming. 'Animal Rights and Self-defense Theory', Journal of Value Inquiry.

Hadley J. Forthcoming. ''We Cannot Experience Abstractions': Moral Responsibility for 'Eternal Treblinka'', Southerly.

Hadley J. Forthcoming. 'Animal Rights Extremism and the Terrorism Question', Journal of Social Philosophy.

Hadley J. 2008, 'Paying Their Way: Dissident Opinion, Advertising and Access to the Public Sphere', Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics Vol. 10, No. 2.

Hadley J. 2007. 'Critique of Callicott's Biosocial Moral Theory', Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 12, No. 1: 67-78.

Hadley J. 2006. 'The Duty to Aid Nonhuman Animals in Dire Need', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 4: 445-451.

Hadley J. 2005. 'Nonhuman Animal Property: Reconciling Environmentalism and Animal Rights', Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 36, No. 3: 305-315.(Reprinted in Animal Rights, Clare Palmer ed. Ashgate, 2008

Hadley J. 2004. 'Excluding Destruction: Towards An Environmentally Sustainable Libertarian Property Rights Regime', Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol.12, No.2: 22-29.

Hadley J. 2004. 'Using and Abusing Others: A Reply to Machan', Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol.38, No. 3: 411-414.