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  • 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


WHAT'S NEW

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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Michael Selgelid ABC podcast Addiction Free will & Self Control.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Matthew Rimmer on Intellectual Property and Clean Technology

 

WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics

WHO

 

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CAPPE NEWS

 

New Book Series

First book in the new CAPPE ANU book series More

 

Conference

25 – 26 August 2010
Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict.More

 

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday August 4th- John Dryzek Toward a Deliberative Global Citizens' Assembly
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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
View my cv (.pdf)

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