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..

Welfare Ethics

  • Obligations of Individual Citizens of Wealthy Nations in Relation to International Poverty
  • The Obligations of Welfare Recipients More..

WHAT'S NEW

What's new in CAPPE publications?
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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

Professor Justin O'Brien

'The crisis of failing strategies'

Professor Larry May

Just War Theory and Chemical/Biological Weapons

Professor Tony Coady

Morality and Political Violence

UPCOMING
EVENTS

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Why Social Justice Matters  - Associate Prof. Ian Hunt (Flinders)
Monday 19th May 2008 More....

CAPPE UniMelb Seminar

Justification & 'The Reasonable' - Dr. Steve Curry (CAPPE)
Wednesday 21st May 2008 More....

Criminal Justice Ethics Workshop: Criminalization

CAPPE, ANU
Thursday 3rd July 2008 More....

Globalising Ethics & Politics

Prospective ANU Research student workshop
24th-26th July 2008
More....

NEW TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Potential students are encouraged to contact the Postgraduate Co-ordinator, by email jeanette.kennett@anu.edu.au or phone (+61 (0)2 6125 3450). Arrangements will be made for an appropriate Research Fellow to provide advice including the suitability and availability of supervisors and which of our partner universities might be the most appropriate for the candidate given the applicant's proposed research area, likely supervisor and other relevant circumstances.

MA, MPhil and PhD SUPERVISION

The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) can provide supervision to PhD, MPhil and MA by research students across a wide range of topics. CAPPE members have research interests in traditional and central areas of philosophy including philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, normative and meta-ethical theory, moral psychology, philosophy of action, philosophy of science, cognitive science, free will and responsibility, and personal identity as well as in CAPPE’s core program areas of political violence and state sovereignty; biotechnology; information technology and nanotechnology; criminal justice ethics: business and professional ethics and welfare ethics.

Research areas of PhD candidates currently supervised by CAPPE members include: tribal identity and rights; moral particularism; the neuroscience of moral judgment, privacy and trust in information technology; media ethics; ethics and electronic democracy; the ethics of humanitarian intervention; political violence; trading body parts; the commercial use of animals.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

CAPPE OFFERS THE FOLLOWING
DEGREES

Coursework Degrees

Research Degrees

Master of Arts (by thesis only)

Master of Philosophy (by thesis only)

Doctor of Philosophy (by thesis only)

AVAILABLE SUPERVISORS

UNIVERSITY STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Australian National University (ANU)
Dr Christian Barry Social and Political Philosophy
Dr Jason Grossman Philosophy of Statistics, Scientific Methodoloy
Public Health Ethics
Associate Professor Jeanette Kennett Meta-ethics, Moral Psychology
Neuroethics, Mental Disorder
Professor Seumas Miller Professional and Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Action
Professor Thomas Pogge Social and Political Philosophy
Dr Michael Selgelid Bioethics, Public Health Ethics
Science & Ethics
University of Melbourne
Andrew Alexandra Intellectual Property, Pacifism
Professional Ethics, Hobbes
Professor Tony Coady Political Violence, Terrorism
Moralism and Realism
Dr Steve Curry Indigenous Sovereignty, Professional Ethics
Political Phiosophy
Dr Neil Levy Responsibility, Cognitive Science and
Ethics, Bioethics, Neuroethics, Free Will
Dr Jeremy Moss Egalitarianism, Social and Political Philosophy
Associate Professor Igor Primoratz Patriotism, Terrorism, 
Philosophy of Punishment
Professor Peter Singer Bioethics, Environmental Ethics,
Global Ethical Issues
Dr Jessica Wolfendale Military Ethics, Political Violence,
Moral Psychology, Professional Ethics, Ethical Theory
Charles Sturt University (CSU)
Professor Tom Campbell Justice and Human Rights,
Business Ethics, Ethical Positivism
Dr Steve Clarke Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Social Psychology
Dr Dean Cocking Ethical Theory, Moral Psychology,
Professional Ethics 
Dr Daniel Cohen Ethical Theory, Free Will &
Moral Responsibility, Moral Psychology 
Dr Steve Matthews Professional and Applied Ethics
Philosophy of Personhood, Personal Identity
Professor Seumas Miller Professional and Applied Ethics
Philosophy of Action
Professor Justin O'Brien Financial Regulation, Compliance
Corporate Ethics 
Professor John Weckert Computer and Information Ethics
Nanotechnology Ethics, Philosophy of Technology