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20 July 2021

Philosopher takes the road less travelled

From construction worker and kitchenhand to pinball machine repairman and theatre director, Dr Hugh Breakey hasn’t followed a typical route to academia.

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13 January 2022
Vaccine Mandate Protest

Has the pandemic fundamentally changed our ethics?

As we head into the third year of the pandemic, debates continue to rage over the ethics of vaccine mandates, restrictions on civil liberties, the limits of government power and the inequitable distribution of vaccines globally. With so much disagreement over questions like these, has the pandemic fundamentally changed the way we think about ethics?

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8 June 2021
Cancelled

The Ethics of Cancel Culture

If we think a person’s speech is wrong and immoral, we might suppose there is no great loss about a debate being derailed and the person sanctioned. But there are genuine ethical concerns here.

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24 March 2020

Acting selfishly has consequences right now — why ethical decision making is imperative in the coronavirus crisis

As the country moves into lockdown mode in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are increasingly faced with serious ethical questions about what ordinary people should be obliged to do for others.

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9 September 2019

The threats and promises of multidimensional legitimacy

By Dr Hugh Breakey Senior Research Fellow Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, Griffith Law School ‘Multidimensional legitimacy’ is the...

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30 August 2018

The Significance of Moral Motive Pluralism

By Dr Hugh Breakey Griffith Law School For thousands of years, moral philosophers — and more recently moral psychologists —...

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16 April 2018

Ethics of photography under spotlight

The law and ethics of taking and sharing images in a world where everyone has a camera was in the...

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