PPE in a Time of Pandemic: Moral Dilemmas, Moral Risk, and Science in a Democratic Society

The UNC Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program  is delighted to announce a new program of online conversations to take place live, online, on Friday afternoons.

Each panel will feature prominent experts in social and political thought grappling with the implications of living and thinking through these extraordinary times.

It is our hope that these moderated panels will provide a means to promote intellectual community in trying times, to supplement educational programming now that the university has moved online, and to establish a prominent public forum for timely and informed philosophical conversations about life in the shadow of the coronavirus.

The panels will run for one hour on Zoom at the following address: https://unc.zoom.us/j/943493437

Please tune in live at 3PM ET, on the dates listed below, and follow UNC PPE on social media for links to video recordings of the panels once these become available.

The first is:

Friday, March 27, 2020, 3PM ET

Panel 1: Moral Dilemmas, Moral Risk, and Science in a Democratic Society

Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) and Max Khan Hayward (University of Sheffield) in conversation with Simone Gubler (UNC, Chapel Hill).  Kitcher recently published Coronavirus, Welcome to American! in the LA Review of Books and Hayward was recently interviewed for a piece in Wired asking “Is it morally acceptable to go to the pub during the coronavirus crisis?”