Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics

Currently hosted by the School of Philosophy
at the UNSW Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Site of the ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SEE BELOW FOR INFORMATION ON THE 1999 ANNUAL CONFERENCE (1999 Conference)

AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL
AND APPLIED ETHICS

Why an association? - Background to the AAPAE
What is its purpose?
Why Join?
How is it Run?
Annual Conferences
Further Information about the AAPAE
The AAPAE Emailing List - Please Join
Archives
Links to Professional and Applied Ethics Resources on the Web
Committee

Why an association?

Ethics has had a high profile in Australia over the last decade. There is now a growing recognition of applied ethics as a multidisciplinary field, encompassing a wide variety of disparate areas, investigation of which has an important role to play in public, academic and professional life.

The Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) grew out of a conference on Teaching Applied Ethics held in Sydney in 1992.Academics and professionals from many different backgrounds met together, found a great deal of common ground, profited from their interchanges, and were eager to meet again on a regular basis. The next step was to form an association which could bring together people normally separated by traditional discipline boundaries. Hence the formation in 1993 of the AAPAE, a non-partisan, non-profit national umbrella organisation for all those concerned with applied ethics in its many forms.

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What is its purpose?

The broad purpose of the AAPAE is to encourage awareness of applied ethics as a significant area of concern, and to foster discussion of issues in applied ethics. It provides a meeting point for practitioners from various fields together with academics with specialist expertise. It welcomes everyone who wants or needs to think and talk about applied or professional ethics. The AAPAE also attempts to foster connections with special interest groups. The AAPAE does not endorse or support any particular viewpoint, but rather aims to promote a climate in which different and differing views, concerns, and approaches can be expressed and discussed.

The formal aims of the AAPAE, as stated in its constitution, are -

To facilitate networking between individuals and institutions working or interested in the area of professional and applied ethics.
To foster community discussion of issues related to professional and applied ethics.
To encourage a focus on the teaching of professional and applied ethics.
To organise conferences, meetings and other events in order to fulfil the above aims.
To develop and distribute publications, including a newsletter and conference proceedings.

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Why Join?

Membership of the AAPAE is open to individuals and institutions. Membership fees for 1999 are - individuals, $75; institutions, $175; concession (students and low income), $30. Membership entitles you to the Association's newsletter, "Australian Ethics"; subscription to the Association's newly formed journal, The Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics; discounted registration fees at the Annual Conference; and a copy of the edited Proceedings of the Annual Conference (this year published jointly by Business & Professional Ethics Journal and The Journal of Professional Ethics).

Interested persons are invited to join the AAPAE to become part of this expanding network of professionals, academics, teachers, business people and commentators in all fields of applied and professional ethics: business, criminal justice, journalism, law, medicine, nursing, public policy, and many more. The Association aims to inform you about current events, conferences and publications. It is in the vanguard of developments in this emerging and exciting field of intellectual endeavour. The AAPAE will be pleased to put you in touch with others who share your particular interests, and help you to publicise your conferences and other events in the applied ethics field. Contact any of the officers or committee members listed below.

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How is it run?

The AAPAE is an incorporated body administered by an executive committee under a constitution. In addition, a Conference Committee is appointed to organise an annual conference. The AAPAE aims to have office bearers from throughout Australia. The names and addresses of the current office bearers are listed below.

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1998-99 Executive Committee

President:: Associate Professor Stephen Cohen; School of Philosophy
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052; phone: (02) 9385 2320 w; fax: (02) 9385 1029; email: s.cohen@unsw.edu. au

Vice-President:

Dr Bruce Langtry

Philosophy Department/Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic 3052

phone: (03) 9344 7261 w

fax: (03) 9344 4280

email: b.langtry@philosophy.unimelb.edu.au

Secretary:: Mr Keith Joseph; Department of Philosophy
University of Newcastle, NSW 2308; phone: 0414 783 452 w; fax: (02) 4921 6928; email: keij@bigpond.com

Treasurer:: Mr Michael Schwartz; Faculty of Business
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
235 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Vic 3000; phone: (03) 9660 5515 w; fax: (03) 9654 7483; email: michaels@rmit.edu.au

Newsletter:: Ms. Meg Herbert; Dean of Students
Uniting Church Centre for Ministry
16 Masons Drive
North Parramatta, NSW 2151; phone: (02) 9683 3655 w; fax: (02) 9415 1464; email: dean@nsw.uca.org.au

Committee Members:: Stephen Coleman; NSW Police Academy
McDermott Drive
Goulburn, NSW 2580; phone: (02) 4823 2959; email: scoleman@csu.edu.au

Dr Christi Favor

School of Humanities
Queensland University of Technology
Carseldine, Qld 4034

phone: (07) 3864 4745 w

fax: (07) 3864 4719

email: c.favor@qut.edu.au

Howard Harris

School of Management
University of South Australia
Adelaide, SA 5001

phone: (08) 8302 0821 w

fax: (08) 8302 0411

email: howard. harris@unisa.edu.au

Immediate Past President: Associate Professor Noel Preston; School of Humanities
Queensland University of Technology
Carseldine, Qld 4034; phone: (07) 3864 4747 w; fax: (07) 3864 4719; email: n.preston@qut.edu.au

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AAPAE Annual Conferences

1999 Conference

October 1-3, 1999

Sixth Annual Conference
hosted by Charles Sturt University, at
Old Parliament House
Canberra

Theme: The Moral Foundations of Civil Society

Contact:: email: aapae99@csu.edu.au; Dr. Anna Corbo Crehan; Centre for Professional & Applied Ethics
St Mark's National Theological Centre
15 Blackall St
Barton, ACT 2600; phone: (02) 6273 1572; Dr. Andrew Brien; Charles Sturt University; PO Box 588; Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678; phone: (02) 4823 2695; fax: (02) 4823 2786
Conference Registration Rates
Early Bird (Before 1 September): $ 250:00 (AAPAE members: $225.00)
Standard (1 September and after): $275:00 (AAPAE members: $250.00)
Daily: $100:00 (Waged) $50:00 (unwaged/student)
(AAPAE members: $90.00 waged, $40.00 unwaged/student)

1998 - University of New South Wales, Sydney: Dates: September 26 to 29, 1998
Conference Organisers:: Peter Dolnik; School of Philosophy
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052; Phone: +61 2 9385 2330; Fax: +61 2 9385 1029; Email: p.dolnik@unsw.edu.au
: Damian Grace
School of Social Work
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052; Phone: +61 2 9385 5172; Fax: +61 2 9662 8991; Email: d.grace@unsw.edu.au

FOR SALE....FOR SALE....FORSALE....FOR SALE

Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the Australian Association for
Professional and Applied Ethics (held in September 1998), ed. Damian Grace.

Contact:: Dr. Damian Grace

email: d.grace@unsw.edu.au

The Proceedings are a selection of papers from Annual Conference of the AAPAE.
For purchase of back issues, contact the Association secretariat.

: For further details, and a continually-evolving picture of the conference organisation, go to the AAPAE98 Home Page and be sure to join the AAPAE Emailing List

1997 - Melbourne: The fourth National Conference of the AAPAE was held in Melbourne.
Enquiries should be sent to the 1997 Conference Convenor:
Professor Tony Coady
Department of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia; email: TonyCoady@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au

1996 - Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga: The third National Conference of the AAPAE 'Community, Ethics and the Professions', was held at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, from 3-6 October 1996.
Copies of the Proceedings of the AAPAE 1996 National Conference can still be obtained by sending AUS$10 (includes postage; AUS$15 for overseas orders) to:; Professor Seumas Miller
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Charles Sturt University
Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia.

1995 - University of Queensland: Copies of the Proceedings of the AAPAE 1995 National Conference (containing a selection of papers from 'Ethics in Practice: Applying Ethics in the Workplace', a Conference held at St John's College at the University of Queensland) are still available. Copies can be obtained by sending AUS$10 (includes postage; AUS$15 for overseas orders) to:; Professor Seumas Miller
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Charles Sturt University
Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia.

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Further Information about the AAPAE

If you would like to join the AAPAE, or want more information about membership or the annual conference, or any other matter, please contact:

AAPAE

c/o School of Philosophy

University of New South Wales

Sydney, NSW 2052

Australia

phone: (02) 9385 2320

email: s.cohen@unsw.edu.au

Or contact any of the officers or committee members listed above.

The AAPAE would be pleased to have contact with other organisations which have an interest in professional or applied ethics.

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The AAPAE Emailing List

The AAPAE also maintains a listserver. If you would like to receive information from this (and be able to post information to it), please send an email to majordomo@explode.unsw. edu.au with nothing in the "subject" and the words subscribe aapae-1 in the text (that's the letter 'L', not the number "one"). If you want the subscription to an address other than the one from which you sent your email, then include that other address after subscribe aapae-l --

i.e., subscribe aapae-l otheraddress@....

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