CAPPE

  • 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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CAPPE NEWS

WHO

CAPPE has been designated an official World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. More

 

 

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday March 17th - Christopher Wellman: The Rights-Forfeiture Theory of Punishment More

 




NEW TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Potential students are encouraged to contact the Postgraduate Co-ordinator, by email a.alexandra@unimelb.edu.au or phone (+61 (03) 8344-3863). 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. Current Research Student Profiles

AVAILABLE SUPERVISORS

UNIVERSITY STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Australian National University (ANU)
Dr Christian Barry Social and Political Philosophy
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 Philosophy
Dr Craig Fry Bioethics, Health Ethics, Addiction, Empirical Ethics, Research Ethics
Dr Neil Levy Responsibility, Cognitive Science and
Ethics, Bioethics, Neuroethics, Free Will
Dr Jeremy Moss Egalitarianism, Social and Political Philosophy
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 Daniel Cohen Ethical Theory, Free Will
Moral Responsibility, Moral Psychology 
Professor Clive Hamilton Ethics of Climate Change, Idealist Philosophy
Post-secular Ethics, Consumption & Identity Formation 
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 Igor Primoratz Patriotism and nationalism 
The ethics of violence, war and terrorism
Philosophy of punishment
Philosophy of sex
Professor John Weckert Computer and Information Ethics
Nanotechnology Ethics, Philosophy of Technology