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  • 16 Jun 2020
    Kate A. Moran

    Kant on Sympathy with the Fate of Others

    During the strange week in March that began almost normally and ended with the shuttering of campuses and a series of rushed goodbyes, the students in my course on Kant’s moral philosophy half-jokingly wondered if he might have anything instructive to say about pandemics or social isolation. I pondered the question. There was, I supposed, […]

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  • 5 Jun 2020
    Colin Heydt

    Blame and Creating Risks for Others

    Before turning to the pandemic, allow me to tell a story. One of my cousins—let’s call him “Walt”—grew up loving cars. As a 12-year-old, Walt could name the make and model of every car we passed in his rural New Hampshire town. When Walt got old enough to drive, he and his friends would modify […]

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  • 5 Jun 2020
    Sara Protasi

    Virtual Emotions in a Pandemic

    Writers, cinematographers, and philosophers have often wondered what love could look like in a virtual age. Could we fall in love with a sophisticated AI? Will there be a time in which people think that having sex in person is odd or even gross? Will the children of our children ever leave their bedroom in […]

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  • 4 Jun 2020
    David Harker

    Uncertainty in a Pandemic

    So much about COVID-19 seems uncertain. When will a vaccine be widely available and how many will refuse it? What’s the infection fatality rate? To what extent are we undercounting, or over-counting, the number of infections and deaths? Can the virus spread from contaminated surfaces? How risky is it to use public transportation or go […]

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  • 1 Jun 2020
    Gillian Brock

    Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Closed Borders in the Covid-19 Era

    For some years now there has been a flourishing debate between those who advocate for a more open-bordered world and those who want nations to have more powers to restrict border crossings. Sometimes these different sides are given names, such as “globalists” or “cosmopolitans,” on the one hand, and “statists” or “nationalists” on the other. […]

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  • 28 May 2020
    Heather Dyke

    Our Experience of Time in the Time of Coronavirus Lockdown

    The change from our lives BC (before coronavirus) to the lockdown most of us around the world are currently experiencing was dramatic and sudden. Many began working from home, often while also juggling the demands of home-schooling their children. Others went from working to not working at all. Yet others, essential workers, found their jobs […]

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  • 27 May 2020
    Alex Tuckness

    Golden Rules in a Time of Pandemic

    A striking feature of life during a pandemic is our interest in rules. Rapidly changing legal rules regulate our everyday decisions about where we can go, what we can do, and whom we can visit. In addition to the legal rules there are the various, and sometimes conflicting, recommendations about what we should do, and […]

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  • 26 May 2020
    Gregory M. Reichberg

    Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job: Some Lessons for a Pandemic

    Finding myself shut indoors until further notice and scouring my home library for a book that could provide solace in these trying circumstances, my eyes fell upon a work by Thomas Aquinas: Literal Exposition on Job. As you will recall, Job is the biblical patriarch who, despite being a manifestly good man, suffered a dramatic […]

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