As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, fundamental philosophical questions have come into sharp focus. In this panel discussion, faculty members from the discipline of philosophy at NUI Galway will discuss a range of issues related to these times of change and uncertainty, including the role and rhetoric of expertise; “states of exception” and governance; the trust invested in decision-makers; the nature of goodwill in a moment of crisis; how we engage in reasoning about uncertainty and catastrophic outcomes; and the nature of nostalgia and how we (mis)remember the past.
Panellists
- Lucy Elvis
- Heike Felzmann
- Felix Ó Murchadha
- Nick Tosh
All of NUI Galway.
Chair: Daniel Carey, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
This session was broadcast live on June 18th, 2020 via Zoom and on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at https://facebook.com/mooreinstitute
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage at: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-gr…