The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) was a research center at

Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, a British explore ...

and the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...

. CAPPE ceased operation on 31 December 2016. Its website has been archived and the academic staff and research projects have transferred to the Faculty of Arts and Education at Charles Sturt University.

Activity

The Centre was under the directorship of Suzanne Uniacke. Professorial Fellows included Tom Campbell,

CAJ (Tony) Coady Cecil Anthony John Coady, more commonly publishing as C. A. J. Coady and less formally known as Tony Coady (born 18 April 1936), is a prominent Australian philosopher with an international reputation for his research, particularly in epistemol ...

Clive Hamilton Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles ...

, John Kleinig, Seumas Miller,

Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a Secularit ...

, and Steven Vanderheiden. Adjunct Professors include

Marilyn Friedman Marilyn Ann Friedman (born April 7, 1945) is an American philosopher. She holds the W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Education In 1967, she received an A.B. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis ...

, Larry May, Ingmar Persson, Igor Primoratz, Doris Schroeder, Janna Thompson, and Christopher Wellman. The Centre's work was organised around five integrated research areas: *Security (including policing and crime, terrorism and counterterrorism, and international conflict) *Economy *Health *Technology *Ecology

Publications

The centre published a journal, ''Res Publica'', which ran from the early 1990s until 2009.

References

External links

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics home page
Philosophy institutes Charles Sturt University University of Melbourne Ethics organizations Philosophical societies in Australia Organizations disestablished in 2016 Organizations established in 2000 {{philo-org-stub