Andrew Alexandra
BA, MA (Melbourne) BPhil (Oxford)
Contact
E: a.alexandra@unimelb.edu.au
T: 8344-3863
Academic Profile
After graduate study at Oxford University Andrew taught at Swinburne, Deakin, Melbourne, Queensland and Charles Sturt University. Since 2000 he has had a joint position in Philosophy and the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Andrew has research interests in the areas of the ethics of war and peace, professional and applied ethics, political philosophy, the history of philosophy, and issues in intellectual property. He is currently part of a group of researchers involved in a collaborative project with Victoria Police entitled 'An Integrity System for Victoria Police', which aims to design and test a high performance integrity system.
Teaching
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161-507 Ethical Theory and Practice
- 161-521 Issues in Professional and Applied Ethics
Supervision
Completed Research Higher Degree Theses
- Simon Bradshaw PhD (2007). Understanding the Roots of Our Ecological Crisis - passed without revision
- Clare McArdle MA (2007). Morality of Politicians in a Democracy - First Class Honours
Under supervision
- Emma Larking PhD Human Rights and Sovereignty: A Dangerous Conflict at the Heart of the Nation-State? - Completion date, late 2010
- Jeremy St John PhD Distributive Justice and Reproductive Technology - Completion date, under examination.
- Ros McDougal PhD Ethical Challenges in Medical Internship - Completion date, mid-2009.
- Alex West PhD Portrayals of Euthanasia in Modern Literature and Film - Completion date, late-2009.
- Cameron Hart PhD Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarianism - Completion date, mid 2012.
- Nik Parkin PhD Peace: Western and Eastern Perspectives - Completion date, mid 2012.
Selected Publications
Books
- Integrity Systems for Occupational Groups (co-authored with Seumas Miller) Aldershot: Ashgate 2009 (in press).
- Ethics in Practice: Moral Theory and the Professions (co-authored with Seumas Miller)Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.
- Private Military Companies: Ethics. Theory and Practice (co-edited with D. Baker and M. Caparini) London and New York: Routledge.
- Police Ethics (co-authored with J. Blackler and S. Miller) Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1997, 2nd ed. 2006. Published in the UK by Waterside Press, Winchester.
- Reason, Values and Institutions (co-authored with S. Matthews and S. Miller). Melbourne: Tertiary Press, 2002.
Recent refereed journal articles and book chapters
- Ethical Theory, "Common Morality" and Professional Obligations' (co-authored with Seumas Miller ) Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Vol. 30, No. 1, 2009, pp.69-80.
- 'Mars Meets Mammon' in A. Alexandra, D. Baker and M. Caparini (eds) Private Military Companies: Ethics, Theory and Practice Routledge 2008, pp. 89-102.
- 'Professional Ethics for Politicians?' in I. Primoratz (ed.) Politics and Morality, Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, chapter 5, pp. 76-91
- 'On the Distinction between Pacifism and Pacificism' in Barbara Bleich and Jean-Daniel Strub (eds) Pafizismus: Ideengeschicte, Theorie und Praxis Bern: Haupt Verlag, 2006 pp. 107-24.
- trans. into Croatian and reprinted as 'O Razliki Izmeda Pacifizma I Pacificizma' Polemos, vol. 10 (2007), no. 1, pp. 95-108
- 'Accountability and Ministerial Advisors' (co-authored with Clare McArdle) Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics Vol. 5, no. 2, 2003 (Special Issue, edited S. Coleman), pp. 71-83.
- 'Needs, Moral Self-Consciousness and Professional Roles' (co-authored with S. Miller) in J. Rowan and S. Zinaich Ethics for the Professions Belmont: Wadsworth, 2003, pp. 134-140.
- 'Political Pacifism' Social Theory and Practice Vol. 29, no. 4 (October 2003) pp.589-606
- Reprinted in Social Science Library (A Project with Global Development and Environment at Tufts University in conjunction with the UN Decade for Education and Sustainable Development)
- 'Australian Plant Intellectual Law in Context' Business and Professional Ethics Journal Vol. 21, nos. 3&4, 2002, pp. 47-69.
- 'Academic Personality and the Commodification of Academic Texts' Ethics and Information Technology Vol. 4, 2002, pp. 279-286