Martin Ferguson Smith on confronting Covid-19 with guidance from Epicurus.
Covid-19
Social Risk Preference and Pandemic Management
Don Ross reports on a way to match policy with preferences.
Pandemic Playlist
Jean Kazez on some philosophically interesting distractions.
Democracy and the Virus
Christoph Schuringa asks what concept the Covid-19 crisis demands.
Privacy During the Pandemic and Beyond
Carissa Véliz on privacy challenges in a changed world.
Pandemic Transformative Experience
Havi Carel and Ian James Kidd explain how COVID-19 is changing us.
The Mind-Body Myth and Thinking in the Pandemic
Lauren Slater on the perils of online learning for essentially embodied thinkers.
Work Cut Out for Us
Alexander Douglas examines Covid-19 and the Job Guarantee.
The Two Dark Sides of Covid-19
Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri argue that wet markets should be banned.
Issue 90: introduction from the editor
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” That’s one of the most famous things Aristotle never said. Apparently, it’s Will Durant’s paraphrase of Aristotle’s ethics in The Story of Philosophy, but don’t let that get in the way of a good point. A lot of a life […]
Infections With Benefits
Euzebiusz Jamrozik explains how infections might save lives and curb the pandemic.
“Would Have Died Soon Anyway”
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen thinks through Covid-19, distributive justice, and age discrimination.