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Jeremy Moss
Areas of public interest: (examples of areas of public interest this person is qualified to comment on)
Contemporary Australian Politics; Social justice implications of climate change; Egalitarianism; Equality; Ethics in Schools; Foucault; Global Justice; Liberalism; Mutual Obligation; political obligation; post-structuralism; Unemployment; Welfare; Work-for-the-dole
Contact Details:
Ph: wk (+61 3) 8344 5091; mob 0425 753124
email: jmoss@unimelb.edu.au
University of Melbourne
VIC. 3010.
Title & Institutional Affiliations:
Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Selected Media appearances and public comments:
'The Duel Life', The Age, A2, 27 April 2007
Jeremy writes a regular column in The Sunday Age 'The Ethicist': 'Should we keep religion and politics seperate?' March 4 2007; 'What does a "fair go" mean?' 31 December 2006; 'Who is responsible for our water?' 3 December 2006; 'Is Australia's welfare policy biased?' 29 October 2006; 'When Silence Greets a Cry for Help' 28 May 2006
Jeremy was the winner of 2002 Eureka Prize awarded by the Australian Museum for his research on the ethics and politics of the Australian Government's 'Mutual Obligation Scheme'
General Areas of Academic Expertise:
Applied Ethics; Political Philosophy; Moral Philosophy
Selected Publications:
'Ethics in Education': 'Ethics in Education', Ethos, Journal of the Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers, vol 14/4, 2006 & 'New Technologies and Ethical Dilemmas', in Agora, the Journal of the History Teachers Association, vol 14/4, 2006
'Fixing the digital divide: Sustaining or undermining local values?', International Association of Computing and Philosophy, 2005
'Welfare Reform', Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
'Mutual Obligation and New Deal: Illegitimate and Unjustified?', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2005

Further information about Jeremy and his research, including a list of publications
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