CAPPE

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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

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 Steve Clarke

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
IT and Nanotechnology: Ethics of Emergent Technology

Stephen.Clarke@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

View my cv (.pdf)

BA(Hons), PhD

Biography

Steve Clarke is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University. From the beginning of 2009 until 2012 he is on leave and is working as a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, on a major project on 'Science and Religious Conflict'
 

Fields of special interest

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Bioethics
  • Applied Philosophy

Publications

Books

Clarke, S. 2007. Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: the Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance, edited by Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Clarke, S. 2002. Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science: Scientific Realism and Commonsense, edited by Steve Clarke and Timothy D. Lyons, Dordrecht, Kluwer.

Clarke, S. 1998 Metaphysics and the Disunity of Scientific Knowledge. Aldershot, Ashgate. March 1998