‘Tiger in the Room’ | Dr Simon Longstaff AO
We invite you to join us as Dr Simon Longstaff AO shares ‘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
Simon Longstaff began his working life on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory of Australia. He is proud of his kinship ties to the Anindilyakwa people. After a period studying law in Sydney and teaching in Tasmania, he pursued postgraduate studies as a Member of Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1991, Simon commenced his work as the first Executive Director of The Ethics Centre. In 2013, he was made an officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for “distinguished service to the community through the promotion of ethical standards in governance and business, to improving corporate responsibility, and to philosophy.” Simon is an Adjunct Professor of the Australian Graduate School of Management at UNSW, a Fellow of CPA Australia, the Royal Society of NSW and the Australian Risk Policy Institute.
