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

Justice and the Human Good

  • 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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UPCOMING
EVENTS

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday 15th of July -

Kit Wellman:

Rights and State Punishment More


Conferences

Cappe -

Converging Technologies: Some Pressing Ethical Issues (22nd July)

Other -

AAP 2009 (5th - 10th July)

SPT 2009 (7th - 10th July)


Professor Seumas Miller

Director of Australian National University Division

Criminal Justice Ethics

Business and Professional Ethics

Ethical Issues in Political Violence and State Sovereignty

Seumas.Miller@anu.edu.au smiller@csu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-6582
Facsimilie +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

BA (ANU), Dip Ed.(SCV at Hawthorn), MA (Oxon), HDip. Jour.(Rhodes), PhD (Melb)

Biography

Seumas Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University and the Australian National University (joint position), Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University (1994- ), and Foundation Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics and Public Ethics: An Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre (2000-2007). He was Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University 1994-1999. His extensive publications include writings on social action and institutions, terrorism, business ethics and police ethics. He has also been awarded numerous competitive grants and consultancies.

Fields of special interest

  • Professional and applied ethics
  • Philosophy of action (social action)

Publications

Selected Books

Miller, Seumas. Institutional Corruption: A Study in Applied Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

Miller, Seumas. Investigative Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell. Forthcoming.

Miller, Seumas and Selgelid, Michael. The Ethics of Dual Use Science and Technology. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

Miller, Seumas. Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Study in Applied Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009.

Miller, Seumas. Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2008.

Miller, Seumas., Sankar Sen, Prakash Mishra and John blackler. Ethical Issues in the Policing of India. Hyderabad: National Police Academy. 2008.

Miller, Seumas and Selgelid, Michael. Ethical and Philosophical Considerations of the dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences. Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2008.

Miller, Seumas and Blackler, John. Ethical Issue in Policing. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006.

Miller, Seumas. Social Action: A Teleological Account. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001.

Miller, Seumas and Freadman, Richard. Rethinking Theory: A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992.