Tony Coady is now Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He will undertake research and complete at least one of two books, one on the topic of philosophical issues around religion and politics, and one on philosophical issues surrounding terrorism.
He has played a major role in the growth of applied philosophy in Australia. His book, Testimony: a philosophical study (OUP, 1992) was widely praised internationally and has had a significant impact on developments in contemporary epistemology. Morality and Political Violence, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008 and in the same year he published Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics (Oxford University Press). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has been awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to the University of Oxford for part of 2011 and 2012.