Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0879681

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0879681

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Ethics and Formal Theories of Decision. The benefits of this project will include improved methods for making ethically-informed decisions in various practical situations. Among the more important applications are legal decisions and conservation management. The theory developed in this project will also help shed light on both the statistical and ethical issues raised in much-debated areas such as racial profiling. The project will also serve to enhance Australia's reputation in technical philosophy and decision theory.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 27-06-2008

End Date: 30-06-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $100,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Ethical Theory | Epistemology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Political science and public policy | Mathematical sciences | Other

Other Keywords

Epistemology | Ethical Theory | Mathematical sciences | Other | Philosophy | Political science and public policy

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