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  • 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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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Michael Selgelid ABC podcast Addiction Free will & Self Control based on the recent symposium.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:

Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration

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.

Click here for the Program.

 

CAPPE ANU Workshop

Thursday 4th of February: Loyalty in Criminal Justice More




Professor Thomas Pogge

Justice and the Human Good

Thomas.Pogge@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-5485
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

DipSoz, PhD

Biography

Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice. Besides his appointment at CAPPE, he is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University and Research Director at the Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN). He is also editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. With support from the Australian Research Council, the UK-based BUPA Foundation and the European Commission (7th Framework) he currently heads a team effort towards developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org) and toward developing better indices of poverty and gender equity. More about Thomas Pogge

Fields of special interest

  • Kant
  • Ethics
  • Political philosophy, particularly global justice and justice in health care