PPE in a Time of Pandemic is a series of panels featuring 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.
Moral Dilemmas, Moral Risk, and Science in a Democratic Society
March 27, 2020
Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) and Max Khan Hayward (University of Sheffield)
in conversation with Simone Gubler (UNC)
Games, Public Policy, and the Pandemic
April 3, 2020
C. Thi Nguyen (Utah Valley University/University of Utah)
in conversation with Simone Gubler (UNC)
Research, expertise, and existential risk
April 10, 2020
Benjamin Hale (University Colorado, Boulder) and Adrian Currie (University of Exeter)
in conversation with Ryan Doody (UNC)
Universal Basic Income
April 17, 2020
Karl Widerquist (Georgetown)
in conversation with Fabian Wendt (UNC)
Social Media, Social Epistemology, and the Pandemic
April 24, 2020
Regina Rini (York University)
in conversation with Simone Gubler (UNC)