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Interdisciplinarity is the guiding principle
for the programme. We define "applied
ethics" as a combination of ethical and
some specialist professional expertise.
Applied ethics is a central component in
many research projects, and an increasing
number of PhD researchers have a close
working relationship with the Programme.
The medical and biotechnological research
fields are especially active in applied
ethics, but applied ethics is also a central
component in many ongoing activities in
media studies, information technology
and in the technological sciences.
The programme is governed by a board
drawn from a number of
faculties, and it is
managed by Associate
Professor May Thorseth
in the Department of
Philosophy.
Director
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Associate Professor May Thorseth
May Thorseth (PhD), Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Director of Programme for Applied Ethics, NTNU. Main research field is political philosophy, ethics and argumentation theory in the context of globalisation and multicultural conflicts. Ongoing research project: “Worldwide Deliberation and Public Use of Reason Online”. Member of the Regional Research Ethical Committee in Medicine in Mid-Norway, the National Research Ethical Committee in Medicine in Norway, and the Clinical Ethics Committee at St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim.
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Other staff:
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Associate Professor Rune Nydal
Rune Nydal is an associate professor at the Programme for applied ethics. Hes fields of interest lies within the broad field of science and technology studies. He is particularly interested in exploring the normative implications of the empirical turn within the field. In particular, he has discussed ethical implications of various ways of modelling the dynamical interplay between science, technology and society. This has for instance been explored through an empirical study of the emergence of the field of functional genomics in Norway.
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Associate Professor Siri Granum Carson
Siri Granum Carson is an associate professor at the Programme for applied ethics, with a particular focus on coordination of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Applied Ethics. She has written an introductory book on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and business ethics, and teaches and gives courses within this field. Other central research areas are theory of action, language philosophy, pragmatics and disourse ethics.
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Research Fellow Marit Hovdal Moan
Marit Hovdal Moan is undertaking a PhD at the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU), Programme for Apllied Ethics, Institute
of Philosophy. Her project focuses on states' duties vis-á-vis
immigrants who live and work in the country without the authorisation
to do so (resident irregular migrants).The purpose of the project is to
evaluate the moral legitimacy of Europes internal borders by looking at
whether there are rights and liberites that resident irregular migrants
cannot - from an ethical viewpoint - be excluded from.
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PhD Research Fellow Johnny Hartz Søraker
Johnny Hartz Søraker previously held a part-time position at the Programme, but is still affiliated and responsibile for the Web site. He is currently a PhD research fellow at the University of Twente, and his main topics of research are computer ethics, virtual reality, and philosophy of technology in general.
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Some of our current and previous activities:
Master of Applied Ethics
Supported by the European Commision, the
Programme for Applied Ethics offers an Erasmus
Mundus Master of
Applied Ethics (MAE)
in cooperation with
Linköping University,
the Centre for Applied
Ethics (Sweden) and
Utrecht University, the
Ethics Institute (The
Netherlands). Linköping
is coordinating institution.
The Programme offers the following courses:
A selection of previous events:
- International graduate course on Internet ethics (2002)
- Seminar on Globalization and
ethics (2002)
- National conference on Corporate
Social Responsibility (2003)
- Graduate course on ethics and
negative aesthetics (2003)
- Seminar on urban planning (2004)
- Seminar on pseudoscience and
ethics (2004)
- Graduate course on prenatal diagnostics (2004)
- International graduate course on cross-cultural
communication and computer ethics (2005)
- European Computing And Philosophy conference (2006)
Our publications
- Publication series #1 Applied Ethics in Internet Research
- Publication series #2 Anvendt etikk ved NTNU
["Applied Ethics at NTNU"]
- Publication series #3 Etikk og samfunnsansvar i norske
økonomi- og ledelsesutdanninger
["Ethics and social responsibility in
Norwegian economic and
management education"]
- Publication series #4 Globalisering og etikk ["Globalization and ethics"]
- Publication series #5 Psevdovitenskap og etikk
["Pseudoscience and ethics"]
- Publication series #6 Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society
- Juks, uredelighet og god forskning ["Cheating, Dishonesty and Good Science"]
Contact: see left margin
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