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Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAPE)
An initiative of the School of Philosophy, CAPE encourages dialogue on ethical issues of importance within the Tasmanian, wider Australian and international communities. It offers the expertise of philosophers across a diverse range of fields from police and nursing ethics to the environment.
CAPE is unique in the Australasian region for its coordination of the Australian academic exchange program to the Tibetan University in India and coordinates the community-based Philosophy Café and Philosophy and Film.
Drawing on resources from within the University as well as the wider community, the Centre aims at the promotion and development of greater philosophical awareness and improved philosophical and ethical expertise, while also making existing expertise more readily available to the Tasmanian community. The Centre received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Community Engagement.
The Centre provides advice and training to public and private sector organisations like Tasmania Police, the State Services Commission, the Public Sector Management Program, the Local Government Association of Tasmania and the School of Nursing and Midwifery, to name a few, with CAPE staff invited to give keynote addresses to a diverse range of national and international forums from performing arts to the construction industry
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CAPE seeks to answer questions like:
How can we effectively manage ourselves and live a happy life?
How can we develop exceptional skills in problem solving and decision making?
How can we engage with others in a cooperative and non-adversarial way?
How can we enhance palliative care through the ethics of compassion?
How do we promote ethical excellence in leadership and business practice? |
Research Outputs
The Centre benefits from postgraduate students working on cutting edge projects in the applied ethics arena from restorative justice, international human rights, virtue ethics, bioethics and interfaith dialogue. Collaborative research with national and international partner organisations has evidenced success with major publications on nonviolent responses to terror and contribution to the prominently recognised Global Peace Index.
Affiliated staff members
The Centre is supported by an Advisory
Board, and the Director of the Centre is is Dr Anna
Alomes, other staff members include:
Professor Jeff Malpas, Dr David
Coady, Dr Sonam Thakchoe,
Dr Linn Miller.
Cape's Mission
The primary mission of the Centre is
to extend the reach of philosophical activity within the University
of Tasmania into the wider community and to help build stronger
collaborative relations between the University and the community.
The Centre is already involved in developing training and consultancy
activities, while also organising public lectures and seminars on
topics from the impact of the Internet through to the future of
work and organisational ethics.
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