Events
Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship Public Lecture (2013 Spring)
4 Mar 2013
4:30 – 6:30 pm (Tea reception at 4:00 pm)
Cho Yiu Conference Hall, University Administrative Building
Professor Tom Sorell
Professor Tom Sorell read Philosophy at McGill University and received his bachelor’s degree in 1972. He later went to Oxford University for graduate study and obtained his BPhil in 1975 and DPhil in 1978. Professor Sorell taught at The Open University, UK (1979–92), and later at the University of Essex (1992–2006), where he became Professor of Philosophy in 1995. He was also the Director of its MA and Doctoral Programs in Ethics, Politics, and Public Policy (1995–2006), and Co-Director of Human Rights Centre (2003–05). In 2006, Professor Sorell moved to University of Birmingham as John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, where he directed The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (2006–2012). He recently joined the University of Warwick as Professor of Politics and Philosophy. More details at :http://phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/content.php?user_page_id=153&mid=25-26&lang=eng
Free admission
Mr. Jeff Li / tel: 3943 7146
Emergency ethics is not the ethics of the normal situation. Taking as a case study the 2007 UK plan for responding to an avian flu pandemic, I argue that the plan was defective and that the ethical guidance provided by the government to health authorities was also questionable. The guidance was incorrectly modeled on ethics as usual. The failings of the UK plans tell us something important about ethics and something important about the relation of ethics to normality.
