'Tiger in the Room' | Dr Simon Longstaff AO

We invite you to join us as Dr Simon Longstaff AO shares 'The Tiger in the Room'. This is our latest Community Event, brought to you by the Centre for Critical Thinking and Ethics. 

Dr Simon Longstaff will explore why people fail to see ethical consequences in the moment – and how ethics sharpens our judgement to make better decisions.

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Tiger in the Room
Too often it is ‘good' people who make ‘bad’ decisions. When asked how they came to do so, their most immediate response is often to reply, “I just didn’t see it at the time.”

Is their not seeing a product of wilful blindness - or, perhaps, something more troubling in the human condition? And how does ethics help us better to see what we ought to do and thus make better decisions that, in turn, make for a better world?

Dr Simon Longstaff AO

Dr Simon Longstaff has been Executive Director of The Ethics Centre since 1991, working across business, government and society. He has a PhD in philosophy from Cambridge University, is a Fellow of CPA Australia and of the Royal Society of NSW, and an Adjunct Professor of the AGSM at UNSW. Simon was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2013.