Well, you could have been joining us for another fascinating session last night on practical ethics guided by Professor Ian Thompson and Professor Henry Thompson!
Both Dr Elizabeth Drummond Young and Odile Pilley contributed their reflections on experiences working in the financial sector and EU institutions respectively. The background papers and handout for this session are available here. Biographies of participants are here.
A couple of other useful links. Elizabeth mentioned the effects of the Big Bang and referred to an oral history project on its effects. That project can be found here. Henry mentioned the philosopher Bernard Williams and his emphasis on narratives and concrete detail in moral reflection. An article on Bernard Williams from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy can be found here.
Next session 13 May:
Certainty and Uncertainty in Ethics — Can computers give us moral certainty?
Machines and Humans: practical wisdom & casuistry, ethical decisions versus ethical policy
— Zenon Bankowski, Professor Emeritus of Legal Theory, University of Edinburgh School of Law
with Henry Thompson and Ian Thompson
[Details of image: The New York stock exchange trading floor in September 1963, before the introduction of electronic readouts and computer screens. Full details here.]
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