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  • ANU
  • CSU
  • 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 Tony Coady

Ethical Issues in Political Violence and State Sovereignty

t.coady@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-5155
Facsimilie +61 (03) 9348-2130
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, BPhil, MA, MA

Biography

Tony Coady is one of Australia's best-known philosophers. He has an outstanding international reputation for his writings on epistemology and on political violence and political ethics. His book Testimony: a Philosophical Study (OUP, 1992) has been particularly influential and more recently he published Morality and Political Violence (CUP, 2008) In 1990 he founded and became director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues at the University of Melbourne, the first centre in Australia to be concerned with broad issues of philosophy and public affairs. CPPI later became absorbed into CAPPE where Coady was Deputy-Director for its first four years. In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, which were subsequently published in 2008 by Oxford University Press under the title, Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics.

Fields of special interest

  • Political Violence
  • Terrorism
  • Just War Theory
  • Religion and Politics
  • The Epistemology of Testimony
  • Knowledge and Common Sense