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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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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Michael Selgelid ABC podcast Addiction Free will & Self Control based on the recent symposium.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:

Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration

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

 




Dr Neil Levy

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

nllevy@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-3855
Facsimile +61 (03) 8344-3889
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BA(Hons), PhD, PhD

Biography

Neil Levy’s work focuses on the links between ethical theory and practice and other disciplines, within and beyond philosophy. Together with Jeanette Kennett he holds an Australian Research Council Grant to develop a framework for the ethical regulation of technologies associated with the sciences of the mind and to seek to understand the implications of these sciences for our conception of human agency.

Fields of special interest

  • Free will and moral responsibility
  • Neuroethics
  • Philosophical psychology
  • Moral cognition
  • Practical epistemology

Publications

Books

Levy, N. 2007. Neuroethics: Philosophical Challenges for the 21st Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University  Press.
Levy, N. 2004. What Makes us Moral? Crossing the Boundaries of Biology, Oxford: Oneworld.
Levy, N. 2002. Moral Relativism, Oxford: Oneworld.
Levy, N. 2002. Sartre, Oxford: Oneworld.
Levy, N. 2002. Being Up-To-Date: Foucault, Sartre and Postmodernity, New York: Peter Lang.