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  • ANU
  • CSU
  • 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

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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

 




Professor John Weckert

IT and Nanotechnology: Ethics of Emergent Technology

jweckert@csu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6933-2372 and 61 (02) 6125-8995
Facsimile +61 (02) 6933-2733 and 61 (02) 6125-6579
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BA(Hons), MA, Dip CompSc, PhD

Biography

John Weckert researches mainly in the areas of ethics and new technologies, concentrating on information and communication technology and nanotechnology. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale. He currently holds an ARC Linkage grant with the Australian Computer Society on ethics and regulation in the ICT industry and a National Science Foundation (US) grant on nanotechnology and human enhancement.

Fields of special interest

  • Nanotechnology
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Methods for Ethically Assessing Emergent Technologies
  • Philosophy of Technology