Table of Contents

List of contributors

Foreword by Onora O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengrave

1. Introduction, Aveek Battacharya (Social Market Foundation, UK), Fay Niker (University of Stirling, UK)


Part I Social welfare and vulnerability

2. Risk, disadvantage and the COVID-19 crisis, Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford, UK), Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

3. How should we distribute scarce medical resources in a pandemic? Sara Van Goozen (University of York, UK)

4. Assessing the impact of school closures on children through a vulnerability lens, Nicolás Brando (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (São Paulo University, Brazil)

5. Adequate housing in a pandemic, David Jenkins (University of Otago, Canada), Katy Wells (University of Warwick, UK), Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia, Canada)


Part II Economic justice

6. Should the older generation pay more of the COVID-19 debt? David Yarrow (University of Edinburgh, UK)

7. Rebuilding social insurance to end economic precarity, Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

8. Pandemic solidarity and universal basic income, Diana Popescu (King's College London, UK)


Part III Democratic relations

9. Legitimating pandemic-responsive policy: Whose voices count when? Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling, UK)

10. Living alone under lockdown, Felix Pinkert (University of Vienna, Austria)

11. Should we hold elections during a pandemic? Alexandru Volacu (University of Bucharest, Romania)

12. The pandemic and our democratic way of life, Marc Stears (University of Sydney, Australia)


Part IV Speech and (mis)information

13.Coronavirus misinformation, social media, and freedom of speech, Jeffrey Howard (University College London, UK)

14. What is the democratic state’s obligation of transparency in times of crisis? Rebecca Lowe (King's College London, UK)

15. Deferring to expertise in public health emergencies, Viktor Ivankovic (Institute of Philosophy, Croatia), Lovro Savic (University of Oxford, UK)

16. Should we shame those who ignore social distancing guidelines? Paul Billingham (University of Oxford, UK), Tom Parr (University of Warwick, UK)


Part V Crisis and justice

17. Harnessing the epistemic value of crises for just ends, Matthew Adams (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), Fay Niker (University of Stirling, UK)

18. Living through the pandemic: an experiment in egalitarian living for the middle classes? Anca Gheaus (Central European University, Austria)

19. Coronavirus and climate change: What can the former teach us about the latter?
Julia Hermann (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Katharina Bauer (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), Christian Baatz (University of Kiel, Germany)

20. Pandemic as political theory, Adam Swift (University College London, UK)

Index

Promotional Information

20 accessible essays covering the ethical and justice based dimensions of responses to the pandemic from a group of leading and emerging political philosophers.

About the Author

Fay Niker is Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling, UK.

Aveek Bhattacharya is Chief Economist at the Social Market Foundation, a non-partisan think tank based in London.

Reviews

[T]his book is well worth reading.
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