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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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




Upcoming Events

 

RECENT EVENTS

 

PROMOTING DUAL USE ETHICS(28th-29th January)

'Inaugural Event of the Newly Designated WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University'.

28-29 January 2010. Common Room, University House at The Australian National University. Co-organized by Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), the National Centre for Biosecurity, and University of Exeter as part of a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Enhancement project on “Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual Use Bioethics”.

Click here for the Program.

 

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SEMINARS

 

Seminars In Canberra

The Centre presents a series of weekly seminars at the ANU in Canberra.  In 2009, seminars will usually be held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm, in the Arts Meeting Room (directly below CAPPE), Ground Floor, Haydon Allen Building (Building 022), The Australian National University. Click here for future seminars.

 

Next Canberra seminar-

 

To be announced

 

Enquiries to Dr Christian Barry: Christian.Barry@anu.edu.au or +61 (02) 6125-8475


Future Seminars in Canberra

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Past Seminars in Canberra

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Seminars In Melbourne

The Centre presents regular seminars at the University of Melbourne. Seminars will normally be held on Wednesdays at 2:15pm to 4pm in the Moot Court Room, Ground Floor, Old Quadrangle (not to be confused with the Mooting Court in the new Law Building). Click here for future seminars.

 

Next Melbourne seminar- TBA

 

Enquiries to Dr Steven Curry: sbcurry@unimelb.edu.au or (03) 8344 3852

If you wish to receive notification of forthcoming CAPPE Seminars in Melbourne, you can send an email to mailto:LISTSERV@artsit.unimelb.edu.au with the text "subscribe cappe-broadcast Your First Name Your Last Name" in the BODY of the email and you will be added to our list automatically.

Seminars in Wagga Wagga

The Centre presents regular seminars on the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University. These are held on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm in Room 181, Marchant Hall unless otherwise stated.

 

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Enquiries to Dr Daniel Cohen: Daniel.Cohen@anu.edu.au or +61 (02) 6125-1741