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This book - which emerged amidst the novel coronavirus crisis - is designed to fill the gap in the current literature on the topic, offering an original approach to its moral implications. It can be taken as a guide in the face of this pandemic era challenges for human relations.
List of contents
Foreword
Maxwell J. Smith 1. The Pandemic Age: An Overview
Evandro Barbosa Part 1: Rationality and Moral Emotions 2. On the Moral Psychology of the Pandemic Agent
Anneli Jefferson and Lisa Bortolotti 3. Feeling Lonely: Towards a Phenomenological Account of Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Flavio Williges 4. From Fear to Anger: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Negative Emotions and Populism in the Context of COVID-19
Matheus Mesquita Silveira 5. 'Nobody Makes it Alone': Towards a Relational View of Resilience
Martina Orlandi Part 2: Virtues and Traits of Character 6. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Language of Virtues
Denis Coitinho 7. An Alternative Model of Ethics for Global Crises: Confucian Relationism
Jana S. Rošker 8. Danse Macabre: Levity and Morality in a Plague Year
Simone Gubler 9. Well-Being in the Time of COVID-19
Mauro Rossi Part 3: Social Arrangements and Moral Conflicts 10. Delving into Denialism: Rationality, Emotion, Value, and Trust in Social Context
Leonardo de Mello Ribeiro 11. COVID Rule Breakers and the Social Contract
Peter R. Anstey 12. Chance, Consent, and COVID-19
Ryan Doody 13. Allocation of Scarce Intensive Care Units in COVID-19 and Ageism
Alcino Eduardo Bonella Part 4: After COVID-19 Life: Some Moral Issues 14. Faces of Responsibility and Moral Agency in a Pandemic Age
Evandro Barbosa and Thais Alves Costa 15. Community, Care, and Social Recognition in a Post-Covid World of Work
Joshua Preiss 16. The Emerging Field of Pandemic Ethics
Marcelo de Araujo
About the author
Evandro Barbosa is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) Fellow, leading the project
Pandemic and Human Relations: Moral Considerations in the Time of COVID-19. He also has received financial support from Brazilian research funding agencies to develop pandemic ethics-related projects (www.pandemiclives.com).
Summary
This book - which emerged amidst the novel coronavirus crisis - is designed to fill the gap in the current literature on the topic, offering an original approach to its moral implications. It can be taken as a guide in the face of this pandemic era challenges for human relations.
