CAPPE

  • 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

WHAT'S NEW

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CAPPE NEWS

WHO

CAPPE has been designated an official World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. More

Promoting Dual Use Ethics On January 28-29 the Inaugural Event of the Newly Designated WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics was held at the Australian National University.

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CAPPE ANU Workshop

Thursday 4th of February: Loyalty in Criminal Justice More




Professor Peter Singer

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology,
Justice and the Human Good

psinger@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-3854
Facsimile +61 (03) 8344-3889
View my cv (.pdf)

BA(Hons), MA, BPhil

Biography

Peter Singer specializes in practical ethics from a preference utilitarian perspective. He has written widely, and is perhaps best known for the book Animal Liberation. He is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. More about Peter Singer

Fields of special interest

  • Bioethics
  • Environmental ethics
  • Global ethical issues