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 Richard Lucas

IT and Nanotechnology: Ethics of Emergent Technology

richard.lucas@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-8469
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, BA, MLitt, MA(IT), PhD

Biography

Richard Lucas main research interests focus on Ethical Issues in Information Technology, Philosophy of Information, Ethical issues in sport, Philosophy of Sport, Professional ethics and Ethics education. He is currently a recipient of an ARC Linkage Grant examining Ethics and Regulation in the ICT Industry.

Fields of special interest

  • Ethical Issues in Information Technology
  • Philosophy of Information
  • Ethical issues in sport
  • Philosophy of Sport
  • Professional ethics
  • Ethics education

Publications

Books

Richard Lucas, Machina Ethica: A Framework for Computers as Kant Moral Persons, VDM Verlag, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-3639143928. Abstract

Richard Lucas is currently working on an edited book on ethics and technology as well as an authored book (with John Weckert) for Wiley/Blackwell titled, An Integrity System for ICT: Incorporating Ethics into Industry Practice. Forthcoming 2010.

Book Chapters

Weckert, John, Rooksby, Emma and Lucas, Richard, The Digital Divide in Australia: Is Rural Australia Losing Out ? , in Weckert and Rooksby (Editors), Information Technology and Social Justice, Chapter XII, 240-261, 2007.