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


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

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