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  • 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


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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

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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



Professor Seumas Miller 

Criminal Justice Ethics

Business and Professional Ethics

Ethical Issues in Political Violence and State Sovereignty

semiller@csu.edu.au

Telephone +61 (02) 6169 4138
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 , Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University (1994- ). He was Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University 1994-1999 and Foundation Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics and Public Ethics: An Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre (2000-2007). 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.