Responses to a Pandemic

Anna Gotlib is associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY. Her areas of research and teaching include feminist bioethics/medical ethics, moral psychology, social and political philosophy. She serves as one of the chief editors of IJFAB (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics). Her work has appeared in Hypatia, The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal of Medical Humanities, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and several edited collections.

• In Medias Res: Philosophers as Witnesses to Disaster, Anna GotlibPART I: Pandemic SelvesChapter 1: The New Normals: Solidarity, Recognition, and Vulnerable Selves in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Vanessa WillsChapter 2: COVID-19 and the Politics of Home, Corey McCallChapter 3: Waiting to Say Goodbye, J. S. BiehlPART II: Pandemic, Illness, and DisabilityChapter 4: Sometimes Life Gives You Way Too Many Lemons: An Observation in Nine Parts, Ruth GroenhoutChapter 5: The Nightmare of Triage and Discrimination: Whose Benefit Is to be Maximized?, Eva Feder KittayChapter 6: Disability and Disproportionate Disadvantage, Kevin TimpePART III: Pandemic, Precariousness, and Social JusticeChapter 7: We Survived COVID-19! (Possibly), Jamie Lindemann NelsonChapter 8: New Labors, New Burdens: Care Work Re-narrated, Jennifer ScuroChapter 9: Boundaries of Democratic Life in a Time of Pandemic, Alexios AlexanderPART IV: Pandemic, Philosophy, and MeaningChapter 10: More than Mere Survival: Ethical Responsibil

This collection of essays written amid the coronavirus pandemic is a fine example of what public philosophy can be. Social presuppositions are excavated, conversations begun in classrooms extend beyond them, and the contributors’ varied personal experiences do not replace but inform the mournful, hopeful, and bracing philosophical and political reflections they offer us.