Dr Karey Harrison
Teaching/Training Workshops
1999 - 2001 Engineering Ethics, ‘Managing Technology: Engineers as designers of the future’, USQ residential school, Toowoomba, Australia.
January 1987 – May 1987: Visiting Instructor in Philosophy at the State University of New York at Purchase, I taught a course on feminism and discourse ethics.
August 1986 – December 1986: Part-time Instructor at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a course on ancient philosophy included Aristotle's ethics..
Background
I have been writing, speaking and teaching on applied and professional ethics, primarily from the perspectives of applied ontology and virtue ethics, since the mid-1980s.
Research
Publications
2013 ‘Ontological commitments of ethics and economics’, Economic Thought, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
2012 ‘Ontological commitments of ethics and economics’, Economics in Society: The Ethical Dimension, World Economics Association (WEA) online conference, Online, 5 March – 2 April 2012.
2005 with Chris Galloway, ‘Public relations ethics: a simpler (but not simplistic) approach to the complexities’, PRism, volume 3, issue 1, June 2005.
1998 with Kathleen Fahy, & Faye Thompson, ’Do we need a different ethic for the Midwifery Partnership?’, Ninth Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference proceedings, Adelaide, Australia.
Conference Presentations
2012 ‘Ontological commitments of ethics and economics’, Economics in Society: The Ethical Dimension, World Economics Association (WEA) online conference, 5 March – 2 April 2012
2010 “Limits to Growth and concepts of sustainable development.” The revivial of Political Economy conference, Coimbra, Portugal, October 21-23
2008 'Economics & ethics of GHG allocation', IAFFE (International Association for Feminist Economics) Conference in Torino, Italy 19–21 June.
1998 co-authored by Kathleen Fahy & Faye Thompson, ‘Case studies in midwifery ethics: discourses in knowledge & power’, AAHPSSS Conference, Adelaide, Australia,
1992 ‘Gender & normative biases in Habermas’s Ideal Speech situation’, Australian Communication Association National Conference, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Public speaking/comment
2007 'The ethics of emissions', Letters, Australian Financial Review, 7 December 2007
1998 ‘Case studies in midwifery ethics: discourses in knowledge & power’, USQ forum.
1998 ‘Women, ethics and abortion’, Women on USQ Campus public forum, Toowoomba, Australia.
1994 'Environmental ethics', panelist on public forum at USQ, Toowoomba, Australia.
1987 Commentator on ‘The moral situation in modernity’, presented by Agnes Heller, at Rice Center for Cultural Studies Seminar Series.