Centre for Applied Ethics

Centre for Applied Ethics
Formation	13 May 1992
Type	Research Centre
Location	Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong;
Website	http://cae@hkbu.edu.hk

Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE) at Hong Kong Baptist University was founded in 1992. It is the first of its kind established in China and one of the earliest in Asia. The Centre strives to stimulate critical reasoning about fundamental ethical concerns in contemporary society, to raise awareness of moral values, and to further strengthen the University's commitment to research and whole person education. To accomplish its mission, the Centre has been active in organizing various academic activities, publishing research results in different fields of Applied Ethics and developing a co-operation network with other institutions.

Missions

To stimulate critical reasoning about fundamental ethical concerns in contemporary society
To raise awareness of moral values
To further strengthen the University’s commitment to research and whole person education

Objectives

The Centre is committed to research which covers the whole range of applied ethics. It is particularly concerned with different areas which are of high importance to our society.
The Centre will take keen interest in avoiding any sort of ivory-tower mentality and make sure that its efforts benefit society and public at large. This will be achieved particular by organizing symposia, conferences and individual lectures open to the public and publishing research papers and articles in academic journals and taking up ethical topics in newspapers.

Members

Director: Prof. Lo Ping-cheung
Associate Director: Dr. Jonathan K. L. Chan
Research Fellows: Dr. Ip King-tak and Dr. Ellen Y. Zhang

Research Areas

The Centre actively promotes and coordinates research in the areas of bioethics, business ethics, professional ethics, and social ethics. It encourages the development of ethics across the curriculum.

Academic Activities

The "Public Lecture Series: Applied Ethics in Hong Kong" was launched on 1992 and regularly invites local and overseas scholars to deliver public lectures on bioethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, family ethics and etc. Distinguished international speakers, include Jürgen Habermas and Hans Küng . In order to foster research in the field of Bioethics in the Chinese context, since 2007 the centre has organized an annual Summer Class on "Sino-American Perspectives in Bioethics" and Symposium on "Bioethics from Chinese Philosophical/Religious Perspectives."

Research Publications

The Centre has published the International Journal of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy of Medicine since 1998. It also publishes a newsletter annually to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the local academic community and other institutions worldwide. Some of the Centre’s recent publications include:

Ritual and the Moral Life: Reclaming the Tradition (2010)
Confucian-Christian Dialogue: Issues and Perspectives (2010)
The Bioethics of Regeneration Medicine (2009)
Environmental Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives (2009)

Co-operation Networks

In order to establish and coordinate regional and international network of Applied Ethics, the Centre has co-organized symposia and conferences with other institutions such as:

International Conference on "The Common Good for the 21st Century: Beyond Individualism and Collectivism ── A Sino-American Dialogue" (Co-organized with University of Notre Dame in 2009-2010)
International Conference on "Chinese Bioethics and Healthcare Reform" (Co-organized with Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2009)
Symposium on "Family-Friendly Policy: A Holistic Approach to Enhance Hong Kong Families” (Co-organized with Centre for Life Education in 2009)
Symposium on "Human Rights from the Perspective of Applied Ethics" (Co-organized with Chinese Academy of Social Science in 2008)
International Conference on "Genethics in East Asian And Western Context" (Co-organized with University of Oxford in 2007)
Conference on "Confucian-Christian Dialogue in Contemporary Contexts: Thought and Praxis" (Co-organized with Shandong University in 2007)

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