CAPPE

  • CSU
  • 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


WHAT'S NEW

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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

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 Lina Eriksson

 

Justice and the Human Good

Lina.Eriksson@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 2 61258455
Facsimile +61 2 61256579
View my cv (.pdf)

PhD

Biography

Lina Eriksson’s research concerns three different fields: the role and evaluation of theory in empirical social science (with a focus on theories of rational choice and action, especially as applied to the explanation of and by social norms), social and political philosophy (with a focus on international justice), and epistemology. Her recent work includes a monograph on rational choice theory, The potential and Limits of Rational Choice, with Palgrave/Macmillan, one on freedom and the welfare state (ogether with Bob ggoodin, James Rice and Antti Parpo) and a monograph manuscript on social norms, in the finishing stages (together with Geoffrey Brennan, Bob Goodin and Nicholas Southwood). She is currently working on issues in international justice together with Christian Barry and Gerhard Overland. Lina Eriksson also organizes the CAPPE seminars.

Fields of special interest

  • Social and political philosophy
  • Philosophy of social science
  • Decision Theory
 

Publications

Books

Eriksson, Lina. Rational Choice Theory: Potential and Limits Palgrave/Macmillan (forthcoming)

Eriksson, Lina. Discretionary Time: a new measure of freedom (with Robert Goodin, James Rice and Anti Parpo), Cambridge University Press, 2008.