CAPPE

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?

MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Dr Michael Selgelid

2008 ANU Media Award Winner

AUDIO

Public Ethics Radio

New Program

Bob Goodin and Lina Eriksson on Discretionary Time

UPCOMING
EVENTS

Jobs at CAPPE

CAPPE ANU Seminar

CAPPE Postgraduate Work-in-progress (ANU/CSU)
Wednesday 10th December 2008 More

CAPPE PhD Student Wins Research Award

CAPPE PhD student Steve McKinlay, also a lecturer at WelTec in New Zealand, has won the annual WelTech award for sustained excellence in research. Steve will use the award money to pursue his research in philosophy of computing and science.

Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Conference 2009

Philosophy and the Real World
15th - 17th October 2009 More

NEW PUBLICATIONS

MILITARY ETHICS

Edited by CAJ Coady & Igor Primoratz

Recent developments such as the 'new wars', the growing privatisation of warfare and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book offers a selection of the best scholarly articles on military ethics published in recent decades, covering all the main ethical approaches to war. More

THE MORALITY OF MONEY: AN EXPLORATION IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Adrian Walsh & Tony Lynch

The morality of sex, violence and money is at the centre of much human life, but while the first two have been subject to intensive historical and philosophical investigation, the latter, until now, has largely been neglected. This book remedies that neglect. More

POSTGRAD COURSES

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS

CAPPE's unique Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) is designed for those working in government, industry and the professions, and is a pathway to the Ph.D. in Professional and Applied Ethics. It will be available to students worldwide via online delivery as well as in person in Canberra and Melbourne. More

CAPPE can also provide supervision to PhD, MPhil and MA by research students across a wide range of topics. More
Apply for a 2009 CAPPE Postgraduate Research Scholarship. More

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Network of Degrees in Ethics, Human Rights and Institutions

This new program provides generous scholarships for Australian students to do part of their degree on an exchange to Europe and for European students to do the same on an exchange to Australia. More

NEW STAFF JOIN CAPPE

Dr Craig Fry

Dr Craig Fry's research is in public health ethics, focusing particularly on the ethical implications of models of identity and participation on research, practice and policy, alcohol and drugs and addiction neuroscience. Dr Fry joins CAPPE at the University of Melbourne. More

Professor Clive Hamilton

Professor Clive Hamilton joins CAPPE as Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. Professor Hamilton's focus in this position will be to continue his contribution as a public intellectual to social debate and public policy development in Australia. More

WHO WE ARE

The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics is the world's largest concentration of applied philosophers. Spanning three of Australia's most prestigious universities, our purpose is to connect rigorous philosophical thinking with policy input, community discussion, and professional aims. More

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

New edition of Res Publica available now More

Aidan Hollis & Thomas Pogge The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible For All More

Clive Hamilton The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-secular Ethics More

Christian Barry et al (ed) Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt More

Larry May Aggression & Crimes Against Peace More

RECENT AWARDS

ARC Linkage Grant Thomas Pogge, Christian Barry et al Assessing development: designing better indices of poverty and gender equity More
ARC Discovery Grant Christian Enemark, Michael Selgelid Infectious diseases, security and ethics More
ARC Discovery Grant Gerhard Overland, Christian Barry, Thomas Pogge The Responsibilities of the Affluent to Address Global Poverty More