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Jef Delvaux, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at York University, has undertaken the project of putting together a bibliography of writings by philosophers about the COVID-19 pandemic and related issues.The bibliography is divided into three sections: academic philosophy, written public philosophy, and non-written media. Mr. Delvaux notes that the bibliography is a work in progress, so perhaps further categorizations will be added at some point.Covid-19 & Philosophy: Towards a BibliographyThis bibliography is incomplete. Please consider sending me suggestions through e-mail: [email protected]. You can also reach me via Twitter. Hopefully I will be adding some kind of statement of intent in the near future.Academic PhilosophyMayEubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics Vol. 30 (4) May 2020Official Journal of the Asian Bioethics Association.Issue entirely dedicated to Covid-19.Table of ContentsWearing Masks in COVID-19 Pandemic, the Precautionary Principle, and the Relationships between Individual Responsibility and Group Solidarity by Darryl MacerJapan’s management of COVID-19 by Nader GhotbiEthical implications of ‘Rationing’ vs ‘Rationalization’ by Maria Patrão NevesRecognitive and redistributive claims in COVID-19 outbreak by Rogelio P. BayodRelationships between Sri Lankan culture, diets and COVID-19 disease control by Omalpe SomanandaA search for a COVID-19 cure in Siddha medicine by Dhastagir Sultan SheriffHealing mind & body by Mantras, Ayurveda & Yoga by Lakshmi VyasHow not to face coronavirus: the case of Spain by Manuel Lozano RodríguezWho is the most vulnerable during a pandemic? The social model of disability and the COVID-19 crisis by Christopher Ryan MabolocCybercrime pandemic by Marites V. Fontanilla3ndstage COVID-19 spread can be contained with HITT (hydrate, isolate, train, & test) and virtual contact by Osama RajhkanCOVID-19 and Healthcare professionals: The principle of the common good by Randy A. TudyNegotiating the “Good Death”: Saying Goodbye in the Time of COVID-19 by Zehra EdisanThe Economics of COVID-19 in the Philippines by Leandro S. EstadillaSocial Cohesion, Trust, and Government Action Against Pandemics by Marlon Patrick P. LofredoCOVID-19 Debates in Thailand by Ananya TritipthumrongchokCommentary on Tritipthumrongchok by Leonard H. Le Blanc, IIIWe need to work together to find a cure and vaccine for COVID-19 by Mei LuOzamiz Politics in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic by Gerry ArambalaRole of information and communication technology duringthe COVID-19 Pandemic by Dennis L. AlfaroApril04/29/20 - Michael A Peters, Philosophy and Pandemic in the Postdigital Era: Foucault, Agamben, Zizek, in: Postdigital Science and EducationPublished Online first04/01 - Dominic Wilkinson, ICU triage in an impending crisis: uncertainty, pre-emption and preparation, in: Journal of Medical Ethics.Published Online FirstEditorialTable of ContentsICU triageImpending crisisCentral quote: ‘How should intensive care clinicians make decisions in the face of an impending crisis?’The author makes three suggestionsE-Flux, Journal #108 - April 2020Digital magazineEditorialTable of ContentsOne Hundred Years of Crisis by Yuk HuiEubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics Vol. 30 (3) April 2020Official Journal of the Asian Bioethics AssociationIssue entirely dedicated to Covid-19.Table of ContentsEditorial: Bioethics and COVID19 by Darryl MacerBioethics gone viral: How to protect ourselves from any virus by Mihaela SerbuleaEthics of care and Philippine politics during the COVID-19 outbreak by Rogelio P. BayodCommentary on Bayod by Leandro S. EstadillaGlobalization and consumer culture: social costs and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic by Christopher Ryan MabolocCommentary on Maboloc by Aldrin F. QuinteroA brief historical review of the great pandemic of 1918: the Spanish Flu by Leonard H. Le BlancEthical and social challenges of COVID-19 in Iran by Mahta BaratipourCommentary on Baratipour by Marites V. FontanillaCommentary on Baratipour by Leonard H. Le BlancReturn to ourselves: psychological reflections over compulsory physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak by Zehra EdisanCommentary on Edisan by Dennis AlfaroHealth care in India in the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic scenario by Dhastagir Sultan SheriffSpiritual universal ethical values for a global health system using change theory: results of a disintegrated approach in the 2020 pandemic by Suma ParahakaranBioethics at the time of coronavirus crisis; an ethical reflectio on good public policies and a better future by Mireille D’AstousPandemics from the lens of former peace keeper: COVID-19 response by Purusottam KCEvaluation of public health and clinical care ethical practices during the COVID-19 outbreak days from media reports in Turkey by Sukran SevimliImpacts of COVID19 Pandemic on Care of the Patients with Cancer by Esra BilirEquality, Positive Health and Global Inequality in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic by Gerry F. ArambalaTribal Communities and Nations in a time of COVID-19 by Carmela M. RoybalCOVID19: Social Stigma and Public Health Dilemma by Shahanaz ChowdhuryMaintenance of Physical Distance to Prevent COVID-19: A Glimpse at Bangladesh by Wardatul Akmam and Md. Fakrul IslamMarch03/23/20 - Ezekiel J. Emanuel e.a., Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19, in: The New England Journal of Medicine.Table of ContentsHealth Impacts of Moderate-to-Severe PandemicsHealth System CapacityEthical Values for Rationing Health Resources in a PandemicWho Gets Health Resources in a Covid-19 Pandemic?Implementing Rationing PoliciesConclusionsCentral quote: ‘The choice to set limits on access to treatment is not a discretionary decision, but a necessary response to the overwhelming effects of a pandemic.’Central quote: ‘Previous proposals for allocation of resources in pandemics and other settings of absolute scarcity, including our own prior research and analysis, converge on four fundamental values: maximizing the benefits produced by scarce resources, treating people equally, promoting and rewarding instrumental value, and giving priority to the worst off.’Central quote: ‘These ethical values — maximizing benefits, treating equally, promoting and rewarding instrumental value, and giving priority to the worst off — yield six specific recommendations for allocating medical resources in the Covid-19 pandemic: maximize benefits; prioritize health workers; do not allocate on a first-come, first-served basis; be responsive to evidence; recognize research participation; and apply the same principles to all Covid-19 and non–Covid-19 patients.’03/23 Robert D. Truog, Christine Mitchell, and George Q. Daley, The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic, in: The New England Journal of Medicine.Central quote: ‘In addition to removing the responsibility for triage decisions from the bedside clinicians, committee members should also take on the task of communicating the decision to the family.’Central quote: ‘[P]hysicians, nurses, or respiratory therapists who are caring for the patient should not be required to carry out the process of withdrawing mechanical ventilation; they should be supported by a team that is willing to serve in this role and that has skills and expertise in palliative care and emotional support of patients and families.’03/20 - Nir Eyal, Marc Lipsitch, Ethical comparators in Coronavirus Vaccine Trials, in: Dash Repository.Table of ContentsNo better option for participants outside the trialNo better option for anyone outside the trialNo better option for participants in any differently designed trialHow to combine expediency with compassion in vaccine efficacy trialsPractical ImplicationsJanuaryDarryl Macer, Editorial: COVID19 and Health, in: Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics Vol. 30 (1) January 2020, p. 1.Brief editorial that puts some of the papers in this issue in relation to the expected pandemic.Month not specifiedH. Orri Stefánsson, Three Mistakes in the Moral Reasoning About the Covid-19 Pandemic, in: the Working Paper Series of the Institute for Futures Studies.Table of ContentsBackground: A virus Grinds the World Economy to a HaltFirst Mistake: The Illusion that we can Avoid Trade-offsSecond Mistake: “Leave it to the “Experts”Third Mistake: Ignoring Symmetric Catastrophic RiskConclusion: How to be Better Prepared Next TimePublic PhilosophyEssays, Blog Posts, Op-Eds, Interviews etc. in Written FormMay05/02/20- Steve Fuller, Creating the Covid-19 story, in: IAI.TV05/01/20- Jana Mohr Lone, Why are kids asking such big questions during the pandemic, in: The ConversationApril04/30/20- Anastasia Berg, Now Is as Good a Time as Any to Start a Family, in: NY Times04/29/20- Todd May, What is making you stay at home right now?, in: NY Times04/27/20- Silvia Camporesi, It didn’t have to be this way, in: AeonA bioethicist at the heart of the Italian coronavirus crisis asks: why won’t we talk about the trade-offs of the lockdown?Central quote: ‘Our privilege has concealed the reality of finite healthcare resources….There’s no such thing as a value-free model – the longterm effects of lockdowns must be accounted for.’04/25/20- Donald Robertson, Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help, in: The GuardianCentral quote: ‘The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how to face fear, pain, anxiety and loss.’04/23/20- Joe Humphreys, Are we all Kantians now? The Covid-19 effect on moral philosophy [Interview with Katy Dineen], in: Irish TimesCentral quote: ‘This virus is making it harder for us to shield our eyes from the conditions some workers are being asked to tolerate.’04/22/20- Irina Dumitrescu and Caleb Smith, The Demon of Distraction, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/21/20 - David Killoren, What should we do if we can’t beat coronavirus?, in: ABC Religion & Ethics04/21/20- Vafa Ghazavi, Ethics at a Distance, in: Boston ReviewCentral quote: ‘We may feel individually powerless to contribute to social transformation. But each of us bears responsibility for helping to create a more just world.’04/20/20 - Aveek Bhattacharya and Fay Niker, Philosophers’ Rundown on the Coronavirus Crisis, in: Justice Everywhere.Matthew Adams answers the question: What does coronavirus mean for the feasibility of social justice?Diana Popescu answers the question: What does coronavirus mean for the adoption of UBI?Anca Gheaus answers the question: How does coronavirus help us to imagine a just society?Lisa Herzog answers the question: What does coronavirus mean for economic precarity?Nicolás Brando answers the question: What does coronavirus mean for education?Merten Reglitz answers the question: What does coronavirus show us about the need for internet access?Christian Baatz and Julia Hermann answer the question: What does coronavirus show us about how to fight climate change?Anhe Le answers the question: What does coronavirus show us about how to make decisions under uncertainty?Viktor Ivanković answers the question: What does coronavirus mean for how we should view (un)acceptable risk?04/20/20 - Juan Cruz, La pandemia es una tentación autoritaria que invita a la represión [Interview with Carolin Emcke], in El País.Translated title: “The pandemic is an authoritarian temptation that invites repression”, english version in Web24 News.Central quote: 'Está quedando a la vista también que el Estado no puede retraerse infinitamente de su responsabilidad, que hacen falta infraestructuras públicas, bienes públicos, una orientación hacia el bien común.'Translated quote: 'It is also becoming clear that the State cannot infinitely withdraw from its responsibility, that there is a need of public infrastructure, public goods, an orientation towards the common good.'04/20/20 - Matt Bennett, Following the science: trust, experts, and COVID-19, in: Open for Debate.Central quote: ‘The relevant facts underdetermine policy, which must also be led by what we value most, and what we want to achieve with our public health response.’04/20/20 - Boris Groys, Борис Гройс: ‘Коронавирус стал селебрити, которому завидуют’, in: Эксперт Online.Translated Title: Boris Groys: ‘The coronavirus has become an envied celebrity.’Alex Zaitsev provided a summary: ‘The coronavirus has become viral, it's the celebrity number one. We are no longer discussing Trump, we are discussing the virus. Those who are downplaying the virus ("Look, it's not even dangerous!") are downplaying it like Michael Jackson's celebrity status.’04/17/20 - Andrew Marantz, Studying Fascist Propaganda by Day, Watching Trump’s Coronavirus Updates by Night [interview with Jason Stanley], in: The New Yorker.Portrait of how the Trump administration’s response to Covid-19 impacts his course Propaganda, Ideology, & Democracy.04/17/20- N. Katherine Hayles, Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/17/20 - Luuk van Middelaar, Na de noodtoestand, de tussentijd, in De Standaard.Translated title: After the state of emergency, the in-between times.Central quote: ‘It’s important that governments keep on sharing both their guesses and uncertainties, so that we don’t feel like being addressed as herd animals by all-knowing bosses. ‘Richard Yetter Chappell, Against Conventional Moral 'Decency’, in: Philosophy, et cetera.The author, via e-mail: ‘[I am] criticizing the common prioritization of medical over other human interests, esp. as expressed in Regina Rini's TLS article.’04/16/20 - Françoise Baylis, Coronavirus: When Canadian compassion requires social distancing, in: The Conversation.Central quote: ‘Here is a radical idea — what if almost everyone was given a two-week holiday with pay, with the costs evenly split between the employer and the government?’04/16/20 - Cailin O’connor and James Owen Weatherall, Why False Claims About COVID-19 Refuse to Die, in: Nautilus.Central quote: ‘Science journals and science journalists rightly recognize that there is intense interest in COVID-19 and that the science is evolving rapidly. But that does not obviate the risks of spreading information that is not properly vetted or failing to emphasize when arguments depend on data that is very much in flux.’04/16/20 - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Coronavirus lays bare the staggering class inequalities that divide America, in: The Appeal.Central quote: ‘ Asking whether we should frame our domination in terms of class as opposed to gender or race is rather like a person with a boot on their neck debating whether their predicament is truly about the boot, the foot inside of it, or the sock in between.’04/15/20 - L. Syd M Johnson, Prioritizing justice in ventilator allocation, in: Blog | Journal of Medical Ethics.Central quote: ‘The fundamental flaw with allocation policies is the underlying rationale for using them: saving as many lives as possible given limited resources. While saving as many lives as possible is a reasonable and laudable goal in a pandemic, one in keeping with shared public values, it need not be the only or prevailing goal. There are other, competing values and goals that can and should inform ventilator allocation policies.’04/15/20- Peter Szendy, Viral Times, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/15/20 - Michael Hesse, Philosoph Otfried Höffe über die Corona-Krise: ‘Regierungen sind nicht für Glück zuständig’ [Interview], in: Frankfurter Rundschau.Translated title: Philosopher Ottfried Höffe on the coronacrisis: Governments are not responsible for happiness.’Central quote, in response to the question how one should deal with moral dilemmas: ‘In real life situations one will be able, if one thinks in sufficiently thorough and creative ways, to find emergency exists.’04/15/20 - Thaddeus Metz, Why Sisyphus comes to mind in my daily struggles against coronavirus, in: The ConversationCentral quote: ‘Unlike a large stone, coronavirus is very small, and yet our struggle against it is precisely a Sisyphean task: we have no choice but to push coronavirus away, doing so over and over again, having little hope of that making a real difference, and being far from enlivened by the process.’04/15/20 - Daniel Story, Lucky till now, in: Santa Barbara Independent.04/13/20 - Erik Angner, Epistemic Humility—Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic, in: Behavorial scientist.Central quote: ‘[I]t is fine and good to have opinions, and to express them in public—even with great conviction. The point is that true experts, unlike charlatans, express themselves in a way that mirrors their limitations.’04/13/20 - David Benatar, Our Cruel Treatment of Animals Led to the Coronavirus, in: The New York Times.04/13/20 - David Killoren, Pandemic Ethics-Earthquakes, Infections, and Consent, in: Practical Ethics.Central quote: ‘But I think there is something deeper going on, too. I think that a virus raises rather different ethical issues than an earthquake, and I think the ethical differences between these threats might explain some of the differences in our responses to them.’04/13/20 - Jean-Luc Nancy and Shaj Mohan, Our Mysterious Being, in: The Philosophical SalonVictoria Derrien translated Jean-Luc Nancy’s piece04/13/20 - Andrzej W. Nowak, Philosophical Necromancy or Accelerationist Hope? A response to Agamben, in: Lefteast.Central quote: ‘The project of accelerationist biopolitics may in practice mean a conscious slowing down, suppressing part of the needs, restriction of excess consumption to make our societies more resilient to future pandemics or climate change.’04/13/20 - Michael J. Sandel, Are We All in This Together?, in: The New York Times.Central quote: ‘[B]eyond the issue of health care, we need to think more broadly about the way we contend with inequality. We need to better reward the social and economic contributions of work done by the majority of Americans, who don’t have college degrees. And we need to reckon with the morally corrosive downsides of meritocracy.’04/12/20 - Richard Yetter Chappell, When is CVI worthwhile?, in: Philosophy, et cetera.From personal correspondence with the author: assessing what empirical data we'd need to justify implementing variolation.Central quote: ‘There are a lot of unknowns at present. While far from certain, there's at least a non-trivial chance that widespread CVI could turn out to be the best strategy (when all costs are properly taken into account).’04/11/20 - Agnes Callard, What Do the Humanities Do In a Crisis? in: The New Yorker.04/11/20 - Simon Critchley, To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die, in: The New York Times.Central quote: ‘The consolation of philosophy in this instance consists in pulling away from the death-denying habits of normal life and facing the anxiety of the situation with a cleareyed courage and sober realism.’04/11/20 - Matthias Warkus, Triage soll Menschen retten, nicht töten, in: Spektrum.Translated title: Triage is intended to save, not kill, humans.04/11/20 - The Associated Press, Libertarians Debate: How to Respond to Coronavirus Pandemic?, in: The New York Times.NYT-link no longer active, but can be retrieved via The Washington Times.Includes comments by Michael Huemer and Dan Moller.04/10/20 - Emily Bazelon, Restarting America Means People Will Die. So /When Do We Do It? in: The New York Times MagazineEmily Bazel moderates a panel discussion between William J. Barber II, Anne Case, Zeke Emanuel, Vanita Gupta and Peter Singer.04/10/20- Lorraine Daston, Ground-Zero Empiricism, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/10/20 - Jonathan Fuller, Why coronavirus death rates can't be summed up in one simple number, in: The Conversation.Central quote: ‘Ultimately, deciding which effects of our interventions to measure and how to measure them is not a purely scientific problem; it is also an ethical problem.’04/10/20 - Alison Hills, 'Can I sunbathe in the park?' is now a deep moral question, in: The Guardian.Central quote: ‘Though we should all keep to the guidelines, it doesn’t follow that we should heap blame on those who don’t, not knowing what staying at home is like for them, not knowing their reasons for being out. Of course they should comply, but be kind; most people are doing their best.’04/10/20 . Stephan Laudien, Freies Entscheiden ist mehr als bloßes Auswählen [Interview with Hegel-scholar Klaus Vieweg], in: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaTranslated title: To decide freely is more than merely choose.Central quote: ‘The participants of Coronaparties do not assert their right to act freely, they act randomly and fundamentally go against freedom, against human rights.04/10/20 - Markus Schwering, Jürgen Habermas über Corona: ‘So viel Wissen über unser Nichtwissen gab es noch nie’ [Interview], in: Frankfurter Rundschau.Translated title: Jürgen Habermas on Corona: ‘There never was this much knowing about not-knowing.04/09/20 - Ignaas Devisch, Ethiek gaat om meer dan procedures, in: De Standaard.Translated Title: Ethics is about more than procedures.Central quote (tr.): ‘Policy is what happens to make ethics possible, and we shouldn’t reverse that proposition.’04/08/20 - Alex Broadbent, Lockdown is wrong for Africa, in: The Mail & Guardian.Translated quote: ‘Is there an alternative to lockdown? Yes: lock down areas where this makes sense, and which have the older portion of the population, but don’t lock down where it’s impossible to do so.’04/08/20 - Joshua Parker and Ben Davies, The Perfect Protocol? Ethics Guidelines in a Pandemic, in: Practical Ethics.Central quote: [A] protocol can increase [doctors’] confidence in the decisions as well as reducing their decision-making burden.Yet protocols are not a panacea. The fact that these are such hugely consequential decisions is precisely why we must be careful handing over ethical decision-making to guidelines.’04/08/20 - Ianthe Sahadat, Heiligt het doel de middelen? Filosoof Marli Huijer: ‘Ik weet eigenlijk niet wat het doel is’ [Interview], in: de VolkskrantTranslated title: Does the end justify the means? Philosopher Marli Huijer: I actually don’t know what the goal is’.04/08/20 - Şerife Tekin, Health Disparities in Covid 19 Triage Protocols, in: Impact Ethics.Central quote: ‘ It is not easy to come up with [an alternative to a utilitarian appraoch] but we can at least set the tone of thinking about these complex realities by sharing a commitment to social justice, diversity, and inclusion in healthcare. Thus, it is an opportune time to turn to the fundamental commitments of feminist bioethics.’04/08/20 - Simone Wermelskirchen and Hannah Steinharter, Philosophieprofessor zu Corona-Maßnahmen: ‘Wir sind nicht im Krieg’ [Interview with Markus Gabriel], in: Handelsblatt.Central quote (tr.): ‘We are not at war, and even then not everything is permitted.’04/07/20 - Giorgio Agamben, Wir sollten uns weniger sorgen und mehr denken, in: Neue Zürcher ZeitungTranslated title: We should worry less and think more.04/07/20 - Martin Lenz, Will the future be like the past? Making sense of experiences in and of the corona crisis, in: Handling Ideas.Central quote: ‘Continuists think that the future resembles the past, even after this crisis. Accordingly, they will try and prepare for the time after the crisis in much the same way they have pursued their goals before. By contrast, discontinuists assume that the future is not only uncertain but likely different from the status quo of the past.’04/07/20 - Daniel Sokol, Where are the ICU triage protocols?, in: BMJ Blog.Central quote: ‘The reluctance to be open about these life-and-death protocols is understandable but misplaced.’04/07/20 - Dominic Wilkinson, Boris Johnson will be receiving the same special treatment other patients do in NHS intensive care, in: The Conversation.Central quote: ‘Much as [healthcare workers] will try to treat [Boris Johnson] like any other patient, they will be acutely conscious of the weight of a nation’s anxious gaze.’Crossposted in: Practical Ethics.04/07/20- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Social Distancing: A Neurophilosophical Perspective, in: Areo Magazine04/06/20 - Jeffrey Kahn, What are the ethical considerations of using quarantines?, in: Global Health Now.Part of the series ‘COVID-19 Expert Reality Check’.Central quote: ‘Whatever restrictions are implemented should be the least restrictive to accomplish the stated public health goals.’04/06/20- Norman MacLeod, CoViD-19 Metaphors, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/06/20 - Peter Singer and Michael Plant, When Will the Pandemic Cure Be Worse Than the Disease? in: Project Syndicate.Central quote: ‘What we really need to do is compare the impact different policies have on our overall wellbeing.’04/05/20 - Marc Cheong, Freedom in the time of COVID-19, in: New Philosopher.04/05/20- Carol J Adams, Anticipatory Care, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/05/20- Achille Mbembe, Le droit universel à la respiration, in: AOCTranslated Title: The Universal Right to BreatheTranslated By: Carolyn ShreadTranslation: Critical Inquiry Blog04/05/2020 - Mónica B. Cragnolini, Ontología de guerra frente a la zoonosis, in La Fiebre, pensamiento contemporáneo en tiempos de pandemias [Fever, contemporary thought in times of pandemics], p.39.Translated title: Ontology of war against zoonosisCentral quote: ‘Por eso retomo el sintagma «ontología de guerra», para caracterizar la forma en que nos relacionamos con lo que se considera “naturaleza”, guerra que se ensaña contra los animales, y contra modos de existencia humana que se consideran animalizados. Esta ontología de guerra muestra un nuevo aspecto en la lucha contra las zoonosis.’Translated quote: ‘That is why I return to the phrase "war ontology", to characterize the way in which we relate to what is considered "nature", a war that is vicious against animals, and against modes of human existence that are considered animalized. This war ontology shows a new aspect in the fight against zoonoses.’04/04/20 - Alberto Giubilini, Why You Should Not (Be Allowed To) Have That Picnic in the Park, Even if it Does Not Make a Difference, in: Practical Ethics.Central quote: ‘State coercion is necessary to solve the problem of assurance, thus preserving fairness and making it more likely that the kind of cooperation necessary to achieve the collective good is realised.’The author responds to several follow-up questions and objections in the comments section.04/04/20 - Jasper Zuure, Jeroen De Ridder and Rens Vliegenthart, Hoe de Coronacrisis de belofte van het internet nieuw leven inblaast, in: Stuk Rood Vlees.Translated title: How the Coronacrisis breathes new life into the promise of the internet.Central quote (tr.): ‘Briefly summarised, next to a great deal of misery the Coronacrisis also offers a crash course in truthfinding.’04/03/20 - Andrés Gómez, Filosofía y coronavirus: intelectuales chilenos confrontan las tesis de Zizek y Byung-Chul Han [Interview with Diana Aurenque, Pablo Oyarzún and Carlos Peña], in: La Tercera.Translated title: Philosophy and coronavirus: Chilean intellectuals confront Zizek and Byung-Chul Han’ theses.Central quote: ‘El después de la pandemia dependerá en gran parte de cómo asumimos esta fase, donde generaremos una pseudo-normalidad.’Translated quote: ‘The aftermath of the pandemic will largely depend on how we assume this phase, where we will generate a pseudo-normality.’04/03/20 - Nuala P. Kenny, Living in hope pandemic and possibilities for public health, in: Impact Ethics.04/02/20 - Maarten Boudry, A strange paradox: the better we manage to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the less we will learn from it, in: The Conversation.Central quote: ‘A failure to appreciate the nature of self-refuting prophecies is worrying because we know that this will not be the last pandemic to hit humanity.’04/02/20 - Piotr T. Makowski, Theory of planning for the time of pandemic, in Medium.04/02/20 - John Z. Sandler and Şerife Tekin, Tele-Psychiatry Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic, in: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Blog.Central quote: ‘In this case, in consultation with her colleague, Dr. S. seems to have acted virtuously, in so far as she was (i) compassionate, (ii) decided to seek collaborative decision-making, (iii) took the individual context of Mr. B seriously – as a person with increased risk of negative outcome if gets sick with COVID-19, with a caregiver who is also part of the similar risk group.’04/02/20 - Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Corona-Krise: Die Würde des Menschen ist unverrechenbar, in: Frankfurter Rundschau.Translated title: Human dignity is unquantifiableCentral quote: ‘An ethics of balancing and maximising utility is then no longer sufficient when one is confronted with the welfare of the sick, the weak and the helpless. Then we have to recourse to an ethics of unquantifiable human dignity.’04/02/20 - H. Orri Stefánsson, En mer sofistikerad debatt kan rädda liv, in: Göteborgs-Posten.Translated title: A more sophisticated public discourse could save livesFrom personal correspondence with the author: ‘[The] central claim is that individuals who have been prominent in the Swedish public discourse about the pandemic have failed to take a holistic (as in, all-things-considered) approach when considering potential responses to the pandemic.’04/02/20 - Brandon Warmke and Justin Tosi, Pandemic Discourse, in: Psychology Today.Central quote: ‘The point of talking about moral issues is to make the world a better place. As you carry on these important conversations with friends and family over the coming days and weeks, here are some things to keep in mind as we all try to have more productive moral conversations.’04/02/20 - Richard Yetter Chappell, Pandemic Moral Failures: How Conventional Morality Kills, in: Philosophy, et cetera.The author, via e-mail: ‘[The blogpost] argues that variolation, or low-dose Controlled Voluntary Infection, should be investigated as a morally legitimate policy option.’Central quote: ‘I'm more interested in less widely-appreciated mistakes.The most important of these may be the failure to adequately explore our option-space, stemming from the conventional moral thinking of many well-meaning people (including public health experts who are leading the response to the pandemic).’04/02/20 - Ayelett Shani, To Find Peace in the Time of Coronavirus, Be Very, Very Pessimistic, Says Philosopher Alain De Botton [Interview], in: Haaretz.Central quote: ‘ We have to laugh with the shit storm swirling around us. When you know what the bottom is, when you understand how bad it could get – you’re ready for it.’04/02/20- Daniele Lorenzini, Biopolitics in the time of Coronavirus, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/01/20 - Liam Kofi Bright and Richard Bradley, The Masque of Rona, in: The Sooty Empiric.Central quote: ‚[W]hat we hope to do in this blog post is give a basic introduction to the problems of decision making under extreme uncertainty. We’re using policy making for COVID19 as a running example of this.‘04/01/20 - Lisa Herzog, What does the corona crisis teach us about the value of work? in: New Statesman.Central quote: ‘The corona crisis is an opportunity to rethink the way we assess work and to rebuild our post-crisis economic life in a different way.’04/01/20 - Regina Rini, When to think like a utilitarian, in: The Times Literary Supplement.Central quote: ‘Perhaps unprecedented choices will be demanded later. But we show deep disrespect for human life if we rush to find the earliest possible point at which it makes economic sense to throw the vulnerable under the virus.’04/01/20- Andrea Brady, Hanging in the Air, in: Critical Inquiry Blog04/XX/20 - Emmanuel Alloa, La contingence du virus, in EspritTranslated title: Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates ContingencyCentral quote: ‘En enjoignant les individus à se concentrer sur l’essentiel, c’est souvent à un retour à ce que ceux-ci ont de plus familier qu’ils étaient appelés, s’immunisant contre cette part de contingence qui est le ferment de tout rapport intersubjectif.’Translated quote: ‘By enjoining individuals to focus on the essentials, they are often called to return to what they are most familiar with, immunizing themselves against this part of contingency which is the ferment of any intersubjective relationship.’Translation: Critical Inquiry BlogMarch03/31/20 - Stephanie Collins, Are you complicit in deaths if you don’t stay home? How to do good during the virus lockdown: in: The Conversation.Central quote: ‘There are two broad ways the coronavirus crisis might play out. Both make it wrong for you not to bother.’03/30/20 - Judith Butler, Capitalism Has its Limits, in: Verso Blog.Central quote: ‘The virus alone does not discriminate, but we humans surely do, formed and animated as we are by the interlocking powers of nationalism, racism, xenophobia, and capitalism.’Central quote: ‘Human rights tend to imagine the individual human as the point of departure. But why not understand health care as a social obligation, one that follows from living in society with one another?’03/30/20 - Jovito V. Cariño, The place of philosophy and thought during the coronavirus crisis, in: RapplerCentral quote: ‘It turned out that COVID-19 is revelatory not just of the fragility of human life but also of the utter frailty of the national government’s competence.’03/30/20- Thomas Nail, Pandemic prediction from Lucretius, in: iai.tv03/30/20 - Joseph Stramondo, COVID-19 Triage and Disability: What NOT To Do, in: bioethics.net.Central quote: ‘In sum, one core argument against some of the emerging COVID-19 triage protocols is that they are discriminatory against disabled people when they use criteria that deprioritize them because of a belief that their lives are of less value because they are of less quality.’03/30/20- Michael Taussig, Would a Shaman Help?, in: Critical Inquiry Blog03/29/20 - Norbert Wallet,“Die schützen, die besonders gefährdet sind” [Interview with Georg Marckmann], in: Stuttgarter Zeitung.Translated title: Protect those who are particularly at risk.Central quote (tr.): ‘We resort behind a veil of ignorance and consider [...] what a just way of dealing with such scarcity can look like. Then most people would say: We want that the most possible number of human lives are saved, because that increases the probability of survival for each individual.’Central quote (tr.): ‘[A]ll patients that need intensive care have to be treated equally. There is no priority for Covid-19 patients.’03/29/20- Joshua Clover, The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour, in: Critical Inquiry Blog03/28/20 - Paul B. Preciado, Aprendiendo del virus: in: El País.Translated Title: Learning from the virus.Central quote: ‘Pero todo esto puede ser una mala noticia o una gran oportunidad. Es precisamente porque nuestros cuerpos son los nuevos enclaves del biopoder y nuestros apartamentos las nuevas células de biovigilancia que se vuelve más urgente que nunca inventar nuevas estrategias de emancipación cognitiva y de resistencia y poner en marcha nuevos procesos antagonistas.’Translated quote: ‘But all this can be bad news or a great opportunity. It is precisely because our bodies are the new enclaves of biopower and our apartments the new cells of biovigilance that it becomes more urgent than ever to invent new strategies for cognitive emancipation and resistance and to launch new antagonistic processes.’03/28/20 - Matthias Warkus, Es ist Zeit, sich zurückzuhalten, in: Spektrum.Translated title: It’s time to restrain ourselves.Note: Piece arguing for the value and importance of moderation during this pandemic.03/27/20 - Martin Lenz, Nothing to lose? Other voices in the corona crisis, in: Handling Ideas.Central quote: ‘In any case, I find it vital to learn as much as possible about our various takes and hopes generated by the crisis, and look forward to many more exchanges.’03/26/20 - Matthew Barnard, Coronavirus: what philosopher Immanuel Kant can teach us about panic buying and isolation dodging, in: The Conversation.Central quote: ‘Where Kant tried to invoke the power of God to encourage us to act morally, something contradicting his secular philosophy, modern leaders are now being forced to invoke the power of the state – and not for the last time before this crisis is over.’03/26/20- Bruno Latour, Is this a dress rehearsal?, in: Critical Inquiry Blog03/26/20 - Joe Humphreys, Coronavirus: How can philosophy help us in this time of crisis? in: The Irish TimesFour philosophers (Charlotte Blease, Vittorio Bufacchi, Skye Cleary, Paul O’Grady) answer the title question.03/25/20 - Vittorio Bufacchi, Why we trust experts in times of crisis, in: RTÉ.Central quote: The fact that there were no travel restrictions, and that large group gatherings were until recently not prohibited, is no excuse for going to the Cheltenham races or meeting friends in the pub. That is morally reckless behaviour, which cannot be excused merely because experts or government officials did not prohibit it.’03/25/20- Alexander García Düttmann, Ein Brief von Alexander García Düttmann, in HundertvierzehnTranslated title: A Letter to Oliver VogelTranslated by: James FontiniTranslation: Critical Inquiry Blog03/25/20 - Thorsten Glotzmann, A Chat with Philosopher Svenja Flasspöhler, in: Deutsche Welle.03/25/20- Kyle Stevens, When movies get sick, in: Critical Inquiry Blog03/25/20 - Martin Lenz, Where are we now? In search of a conversation, beyond graphs and statistics, in: Handling Ideas.03/25/20 - Julian Savulescu, Is it right to cut corners in the search for a coronavirus cure?, in: The Guardian.Central quote: ‘We need to run the race by the rules in order to sufficiently protect human participants. But there is a balance to be struck: let’s not run it with one hand tied behind our back.’03/24/20 - Françoise Baylis, Coronavirus the watchword is solidarity not autonomy, in Impact Ethics.Central quote: ‘In addition to solidarity we must attend to issues of trust, neighbourliness, and reciprocity. We must trust the advice from our governments, health officials, health care providers and scientists. We must recognize our mutual vulnerability and interdependence. We must attend to the needs of the socially and economically vulnerable. We must accept responsibility for ourselves and our actions.’03/23/20 - Alain Badiou, On the Epidemic Situation, in Verso Blog.Central quote: ‘The lesson to be drawn from this is clear: the ongoing epidemic will not have, qua epidemic, any noteworthy political consequences in a country like France.’03/23/20 - Anastasia Berg, Giorgio Agamben’s Coronavirus Cluelessness, in: The Chronicle of Higher Education.Blurb from the author’s website: ‘On theory's collapse into paranoia and what it is we are really sacrificing our pleasures and freedoms for.’03/23 - Alex Broadbent, Benjamin T H Smart, Why a one-size-fits-all approach to COVID-19 could have lethal consequences, in: The Conversation.Central quote: ‘Leaders need to be given the space to say shocking things, to be upfront about what might go wrong, to change their minds in the face of new evidence, and to pick the lesser of two evils.’03/23/20 - Michael Croce, The Right to Know and the Duty to Inform: A Lesson from the Italian Experience with Covid-19, in: Open for Debate.Central quote: ‘In sum, the right to know and the duty to inform are pillars of our democratic societies, but they have a limit beyond which a constant demand and offer of information can become detrimental to our epistemic wellbeing.’03/23/20 - Andrea Sangiacomo, Covid-19 and online teaching: mind the slope, in: Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought Blog03/23/20 - Eric Schliesser and Eric Winsberg, Climate and coronavirus: the science is not the same, in: New Statesman.Central quote: ‘This emerging consensus without a rigorous scientific scrutiny is problematic from both a scientific and political point of view. [...] [T]he absence of scientific disagreement over Covid-19 would be highly surprising, implying informal coordination, not the ordinary give and take in the marketplace of scientific ideas.’03/23/20 - Justin E. H. Smith, It’s all just beginning, in: The Point.Central quote: ‘Not to downplay the current tragedy—[...] it is already affecting me personally in deep and real ways—but I take it that this interruption is a good thing.’Central quote: ‘I am not saying the current pandemic is retribution for our sin, but I will say that the Lele understood something about the pangolin that we have not, and that we are paying dearly for now: that it cannot be lightly killed for no better reason than our own delectation.’03/23/20 - Emily Thomas, Three reasons great thinkers liked armchair travel, in: The Conversation.03/23/20- Catherine Malabou, To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”, in: Critical Inquiry Blog03/22/20 - Georg Kohler, Coronavirus und das nackte Leben – warum Giorgio Agamben falschliegt, in: Neue Zürcher ZeitungTranslated Title: Coronavirus and the naked life - Why Giorgio Agamben is wrong.Central quote (tr.): Philosophy that is not able to recognise the difference between adequately well-informed analysis of everyday life and reflecting on the big picture, fails itself.03/22/20 - Richard Yetter Chappell, "Lives" are the Wrong Measure, in: Philosophy, et cetera.The author, via e-mail: ‘[I] respond to Lübbe's objection to Italy's life-year based triage.’Lübbe’s piece is linked below.03/21/20 - Chris Bush, VIU professor suggests rational thinking in scary times [interview with Laura Shanner], in: Nanaimo News Bulletin.03/21/20 - Michael Huemer, Thoughts on a Pandemic, in: Fake Nous.Central quote: ‘Public health officials may be experts on things like the spread of infectious disease, but they are not experts on these economic costs, so we can’t just take their word on what is the best overall response to the virus.’03/21/20 - Nikolaj Schultz, The climatic virus in an age of paralysis, in: Critical Inquiry Blog03/19/20 - Olivia Goldhill, Ethicists agree on who gets treated first when hospitals are overwhelmed by coronavirus [interview with Lydia Dugdale, Joshua Parker, Alex John London, Anders Sandberg, Brian D. Earp, David Chan, Vanessa Bentley], in: Quartz.Central quote: ‘Quartz spoke with eight ethicists, all of whom agreed that in such dire situations, those who have the best chance of surviving get priority. Despite the unanimity, all agreed that this decision is far from easy and should not be taken lightly.’03/19/20 - Martin Lenz, Governmental gaslighting? Communication in the corona crisis, in: Handling Ideas.Central quote: ‘I’d like to suggest that gaslighting might be an important feature of crisis communication. This is not only important to recognise for restoring one’s sanity, but also in order to prepare for coping in the aftermath of the crisis.’03/18/20 - Giorgio Agamben, Nach Corona: Wir sind nurmehr das nackte Leben, in: Neue Zürcher ZeitungTranslated Title: We are merely naked life.03/18/20 - Silvia Panizza, Philosopher in Italian coronavirus lockdown on how to think positively about isolation, in: The Conversation.03/18/20- Slavoj Žižek, Is barbarism with a human face our fate?, in: Critical Inquiry Blog03/17/20 - Giorgio Agamben, Chiarimenti, in: Quodlibet.Translated title: Clarifications.Translated by Adam Kotsko at An und für sich.Central quote: ‘People have been so habituated to live in conditions of perennial crisis and perennial emergency that they don’t seem to notice that their life has been reduced to a purely biological condition and has not only every social and political dimension, but also human and affective.’03/16/20 - Weyma Lübbe, Corona Triage. A Commentary on the Triage Recommendations by Italian SIAARTI Medicals Regarding the Corona Crisis, in: Verfassungsblog.Central quote: ‘My trust in the (Italian) public health system has not been raised by this publication. Rather, it suffered.’Central quote: ‘In times of shortage, [rights] do not have to be maximized, but rather specified in a just manner. This, also, is burdensome. But one can do it without getting involved in reflections on how much residual value a human life might have.03/16/20 - Joshua Parker and Mikaeil Mirzaali, The Moral Cost of Coronavirus, in: Blog | Journal of Medical Ethics.Central quote: ‘As coronavirus forces doctors to make deep and challenging ethical decisions it may also ask healthcare professionals at the coalface to sacrifice their fundamental values for the greater good.’03/16/20 - Melody Schreiber, The Risky Race for a Quick Coronavirus Vaccine [interview with Nicholas Evans, Jeffrey Kahn, ], in: The New Republic.Central quote: ‘The consent form that participants sign before enrolling in the trial hasn’t been released, but [Evans] and Kahn agreed that truly informed consent is a fundamental part of conducting human testing—especially in a fast-tracked process.’Central quote: ‘[H]ow vaccine makers conduct themselves in this health emergency could have ripple effects for years to come.’03/16/20 - Henrik Syse, Philosophy and Ethics in the Age of Corona Virus, in: Prio | Blogs.Central Quote: The comparison [between war and the pandemic] has both strengths and weaknesses. This is certainly akin to a war when it comes to much of the drama of what is happening and what is required of us. [...] On the other hand, this is not war. No one is attacking us with weapons.’03/14/20 - Rocco Ronchi, The virtues of the virus, in: European Journal of Psychoanalysis.Translated from the Italian by Emma Catherine Gainsforth.Part of Coronavirus and philosophers, a series that collects the controversy around Agambens criticisms of governmental responses to the ongoing pandemic.03/13/20 - Slavoj Žižek, Der Mensch wird nicht mehr derselbe gewesen sein: Das ist die Lektion, die das Coronavirus für uns bereithält, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung.Translated Title: Man will no longer be the same: That is the lesson that the Coronavirus has in store for us.03/10/20 - Françoise Baylis, Coronavirus in Vietnam observations from a canadian, in: Impact Ethics.Central quote: ‘The most interesting and important facet of the government’s response to the risk of coronavirus is an impressive public education campaign, for locals and tourists, aimed at increasing public awareness and changing behaviours.’03/10/20 - Anastasia Siapka, How to navigate the coronavirus ‘infodemic’, in: CiTiP Blog.03/09/20 - Alex Broadbent, Thinking Rationally About Coronavirus COVID-19, in: Daily Nous.Central quote: ‘In what follows, I will first explain the panic in terms of two factors, being ignorance, and the importance of various rates, which is whose epidemiological importance is not always understood. Second, I will set out some considerations that would structure a rational cost-benefit analysis of contemplated public health interventions.[...]Finally, I will outline a challenge for many public health interventions, applying in this case to the problem of panic-buying of various items.’03/11/20 - Isaac Chotiner, Medical Ethics and the Novel Coronovirus [interview with Christine Mitchel], in: The New Yorker.Central quote: ‘During our conversation [...] we discussed what ethicists tend to focus on during a health crisis, how existing health-care access affects crisis response, and the importance of institutions talking through the ethical implications of their decisions.’03/08/20 - Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan, The Community of the Forsaken: A Response to Agamben and Nancy, in: European Journal of Psychoanalysis.Piece published in in collaboration with AntinomiePart of Coronavirus and philosophers, a series that collects the controversy around Agambens criticisms of governmental responses to the ongoing pandemic.03/06/20 - Adam Kotsko, The Invisible Hand Wants You Dead, in: The New Republic.Central quote: ‘Thankfully, Santelli’s novel idea of infecting the populace with the coronavirus was greeted with the opprobrium it deserved, compelling him to apologize for his suggestion Friday morning.’03/05/20 - Sergio Benvenuto, Benvenuto in clausura, in: Antinomie.Translated title: Welcome to SeclusionEnglish translation available from the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.03/05/20 - Massimo Pigliucci, On COVID-19 and pandemics: a Stoic perspective, in Medium.The author applies the classical stoic triad - physics, logic and ethics - to the current pandemic.Was updated on 04/01/20.03/02/20 - Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri, The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19, in: Project Syndicate.Central quote: ‘Markets at which live animals are sold and slaughtered should be banned not only in China, but all over the world.’February02/28/20 - Roberto Esposito, Curati a oltranza, in: Antinomie.Translated title: Cured to the Bitter EndEnglish translation available from the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.02/27/20 - Jean-Luc Nancy, Eccezione virale, in: AntinomieTranslated Title: Viral Exception.English translation available from the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.02/26/20 - Giorgio Agamben, L’invenzione di un’epidemia, in: Quodlibet.Translated title: The invention of an epidemic.English translation available from the European Journal of PsychoanalysisThe piece provoked much responses. The European Journal of Psychoanalysis has collected some of them in Coronavirus and philosophers. Many of which take issue Agambens criticisms of governmental responses to the ongoing pandemic. Insofar as the responses were not dated, they don’t have unique entries in this bibliography. As the series itself is not dated either, I list the names of those non-dated pieces here, in order of appearance: Forget about Agamben by Sergio Benvenuto, The Threat of Contagion (translated from the Italian by Emma Catherine Gainsforth) by Massimo De Carolis, What carries us on by Shaj Mohan, A Much Too Human Virus by Jean-Luc Nancy.January01/22/20 - Slavoj Žižek, My Dream of Wuhan, in: Welt.Central quote: ‘My plea is just that even horrible events can have unpredictable positive consequences.’Central quote ‘But those who should be truly ashamed are all of us around the world thinking just about how to quarantine the Chinese.’Date of Publication not specifiedGregory Fernando Pappas, Philosophical Medidations on the Covid-19 Pandemic: What have we learned so far?, on: personal homepage.Central quote: ‘I will outline the philosophical lessons so far and will suggest a holistic, pluralistic, and communal approach as a way forward; based on the insights and hopes of philosophers like Dussel, Chomsky, Hostos, Dewey, King, Addams, Ortega, Villoro, Peirce, Boggs, as well as Native American philosophers.’Non-Written Media (Television, Podcasts, etc.)April04/20/20- Mark Linsenmayer, Political Philosophy and the Pandemic [Podcast], in: Partially Examined Life04/16/20 - A Panel on COVID-19 with Govind Persad, Paul Farmer, and Allison Stanger, organised by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.Chair of the panel discussion: Danielle Allen.Takes place online. See the website for details on how to attend.04/13/20 - Op1, at NPO.Late night talk show. Interviews with Ab Osterhaus, Marion de Bruin, Marcel van Roosmalen, Bert Wijbenga, Jort Kelder, Marli Huijer and Auke-Florian Hiemstra.The fragment with philosopher, and former family physician, Marli Huijer and journalist Jort Kelder can be found here.Marli Huijer says that there are more concerns to be taken into account than saving the lives of the elderly.Philosophy Professor Michael Kremer on how the coronavirus is impacting religious holidays, on CGTN America.Interview conducted by Roee Ruttenberg.Emphasis on the Catholic perspective.04/11/20 - The Philosophy of Travel, Now We Can't, on Nightlife, at ABCSuzanne Hill interviews the philosopher Emily Thomas and the authors Pamela Watson and Liam Pieper.04/08/20 -Ethics in COVID-19 World with Arthur Caplan and Greg Pence, at Straight Talk MD with Frank SweenyFrank Sweeny interviews Arthur L. Caplan and Gregory E. Pence.04/08/20 - Triage in an Italian ICU During the Coronavirus Pandemic, at Practical Ethics Channel.‘Katrien Devolder talks to Italian intensive care specialist and Chair of the Ethics Section of the Italian Society for Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Medicine, Dr Marco Vergano, about his experiences at his ICU during the coronavirus pandemic, and the difficult decisions he is faced with on a daily basis about who to treat and who to let die.’Also see the blog Practical Ethics.04/03/20 - Take it like a Stoic: coping in the time of coronavirus, on the radio show Ideas, on CBC.Nahlah Ayed interviews philosopher Massimo Pigliucci and journalist Brigid Delaney.04/02/20 - Scobel - Corona, Ethik und der Mensch, at 3sat.Translated title: Scobel - Corona, ethics and the human beingGert Scobel interviews Markus Gabriel, Claudia Wiesemann and Stefan Brunnhuber.Available till 04/02/25.04/02/20 - What caused the coronavirus pandemic? Peter Singer interview, at Practical Ethics Channel.‘In this Thinking Out Loud interview, Katrien Devolder talks to philosopher Peter Singer about the causes of the coronavirus outbreak and what ought to be done to prevent future pandemics.’Also see the blog Practical Ethics.04/01/20 - Nederland op slot: maar welke prijs betalen we daarvoor? Interview with Marli Huijer by news magazine Nieuwsuur, at NOS.Interview conducted by Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal.Translated title: The Netherlands locked: but what price are we paying for that?Transcription was published one day later by Nieuwsuur, at NOS.Central quote: ‘I don’t quite understand why the mortality rate is mentioned daily on the evening news.’March03/30/20 - Helpful Or Harmful? The Ethics Of Shopping Online During The Pandemic, at Public radio from Western Michigan University.Sehvilla Mann interviews Fritz Allhoff.03/25/20 - Thinking Rationally About Scary Things - Coronavirus Response: A Lecture by Dr. Laura Shanner, at Vancouver Island University [Cancelled].Harbourliving.ca reports that the talk would have dealt with the following questions: ‘ How can we make sense of incomplete data? How can we separate true measures of risk from mere feelings of risk? What would be more helpful than buying bulk toilet paper or surgical masks?’See Public Philosophy 03/21/20.03/15/20 - Coronavirus situation is way too serious to be in panic. interview with Slavoj Žižek at Russia Today.February02/25/20 - Midday On Ethics With Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Questions To Consider With Coronavirus, at WYPR 88.1 FM - Your NPR News StationTom Hall interviews Jeffrey Kahn.Misc.CALL FOR PAPERS COVID-19: Assessing Ethical Responses to the PandemicFrom the website: ‘The Asian Bioethics Review (ABR) seeks brief papers from individuals, agencies or organisations evaluating ethical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic for publication in the Perspectives section of the journal. Asian countries have been at the forefront of tackling the virus, and important lessons can be learned about good ethical practice.’‘This is a rapid response call. We guarantee a final decision within 30 days after online submission via the Editorial Manager. Successful submissions will be published – with free access – in the next available issue of Asian Bioethics Review.’Visit the website of the ABR for further information, including potential research questions.Some philosophers are using the #covidethics to discuss ethical problems related to the currently ongoing pandemic.University of Central Florida researches solitude during quarantine.Principal Investigator: Bruce JanzRooted in Phenomenology and Cognitive ScienceResearch team includes the philosophers Bruce Janz and Shaun Gallagher.Actively looking for participants in their online survey.Research description is available here.

What suggests global warming is a fake idea?Nothing, Global Warming is real, the earth has been warming since the end of the last age. The fake part is that man’s Co2 is the cause.The UN created the Global Warming Hoax as a means to implement Agenda 21:“The UN jumped on the environmental issue at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, at Stockholm, Sweden. It was organized and led by Canadian, Maurice Strong, the Secretary-General of the Conference. During this conference, the UN Environment Programme was born, which has worldwide jurisdiction over UN environmental matters. The first Executive Director of UNEP was Maurice Strong.”In comments that laid bare the hidden agenda behind global warming alarmism, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, let slip during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that the U.N.’s real purpose in pushing climate hysteria is to end capitalism throughout the world:This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing [getting rid of] the economic development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution.The economic model to which she referred is free-market capitalism.A year earlier, Figueres revealed what capitalism must be replaced with when she complained that America’s two-party constitutional system is hampering the U.N.’s climate objectives.The Political Agenda Behind the Man-Made Global Warming MovementThe public promotion of the man-made global warming theory has obviously been extremely political and ideological, not based on genuine rational science. Scare tactics, exaggerated or blatantly false news reports, and the vilification and marginalization of scientists who question man-made global warming are all indicators of a political propaganda campaign.Most importantly, the reports that are issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) have always included a summary that dishonestly represents the findings of the climate scientists whose work these reports are supposed to objectively represent, and it is the summary that governments and the news media pay attention to. Furthermore, some crucial IPCC reports have been based on fraudulent scientific studies, obviously because no real scientific evidence exists to support the theory of man-made global warming. Everything they say is simply based on computer models of the climate system, models which have been shown to be wrong on every prediction.All of this indicates the existence of political agendas behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) movement that are about issues other than, “saving the world from catastrophic global warming”. However, it is not easy to clearly identify what these political agendas are.The AGW movement has always been mostly a British-American movement. Although some scientists had been investigating the phenomenon of greenhouse gases from as far back as 100 years ago or even earlier, the theory of man-made global warming did not achieve any real political traction until the late 1970's.U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind The Global Warming ScareThe alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”I will skip ahead to the Global Green New Deal Initiative and how it’s nothing but the UN’s Agenda 21’s Sustainable Development presented in disguise.Here it is explained in detail:The Green New Deal is in fact a part of a global sustainable development program that was officially rolled out at the “Earth Summit” held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. Out of that summit came Agenda 21 Earth Summit: The United Nations Program of Action from Rio, a 354-page document that can be purchased at online book retailers or downloaded in pdf format from the UN website.Agenda 21 has been updated to include Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its offshoot the Global Green New Deal which is a program that was commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program or UNEP for short, mentioned above. A map and outline of “partners” reveals just how deeply embedded in global thinking this program has become. Effectively, Agenda 21 provides the template while Agenda 2030 gives the goals for achieving “sustainable development”.Inasmuch as Sustainable Goal 13 is about Climate Action, it is worth noting that in 2009 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) set up an unelected international climate regime with authority to dictate land use, relocate “human settlements” and directly intervene in the financial, economic, health care, education, tax and environmental affairs of all nations signing the treaty. One must wonder why upwards of $100 billion has been spent on promotion of the current global warming model yet next to no discussion is devoted to natural forcing agents such as solar and cosmic radiation, volcanoes, clouds, water vapor, and grand solar minimums – even though these have been well documented in the scientific literature to have significant impact on climate. Nor have funds been committed to disseminating information about military weather warfare or other long standing geoengineering projects and their effect on climate. Yet at least five geoengineering Solar Radiation advocates co-authored the section covering contrails in the 2007 IPCC report.As uncovered by prominent activist Rosa Koire, Sustainable Development was originally created and defined by the United Nations in 1987. President George Herbert Walker Bush, along with leaders from 178 other nations, signed the “Action Plan” unveiled at Rio in 1992.This plan is anchored by the political philosophy of Communitarianism which effectively establishes a new legal system used by regional and local governments affiliated with the emerging global government, circumventing national law via a program of “balancing.” Implemented by a relatively small self-appointed group of decision-makers and influencers who achieve “consensus” among themselves rather than through the public voting process, this philosophy holds that the individual’s rights are a threat to the global community. In practice, the consistent rallying cry “for the greater good” is defined any way that suits those in power.Within six months of his election in 1992, former President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order #12852 thus creating the President’s Council on Sustainable Development or PCSD. This Council ran for six years, 1993-1999. Its members included Cabinet Secretaries for Transportation, Agriculture, Education, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, Energy, Interior, and Defense. CEO’s of various businesses, such as Enron, Pacific Gas & Electric, BP Amoco, Dow Chemical and others also were included, as were environmental organizations, including the National Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, World Resources Institute, the Nature Conservancy, the Environmental Defense Fund among others.To further facilitate the transition, Clinton awarded the American Planning Association a multi-million dollar grant to write a land use legislative blueprint for every municipality in the U.S. Completed in 2002, this blueprint is entitled Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook with Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change. As Koire tells us, this guidebook is being used in every university, college and government planning office in the nation. And as part of the Common Core program for the younger set, former Vice President Al Gore helped write Rescue Mission Planet Earth: A Children’s Edition of Agenda 21.In 2012 “H Concurrent Resolution 353” was discussed by the U.S. Congress. A short, 8 minute video clip shows various members, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, rising in support of H CON Res 353, which “expressed the sense of the Congress that the U.S. should take a strong leadership role in implementing the decisions made at the Rio Earth Summit by developing a national strategy to install Agenda 21 and other Earth Summit agreements through domestic and foreign policy.”As Koire relates, the clear goal of these initiatives was, and is, to change public policy to bring it into alignment with the Agenda 21 plan.Implementation and ImplicationsAgenda 21 is a global plan that is to be implemented locally via “soft law”. Despite the fact that this agenda would have far reaching material impact on each and every one of us, the U.S. citizenry has not been given the opportunity to study or vote on any of the various facets of Agenda 21. Moreover, the vast majority, out of deep concern for the planet, are effectively neutralized by the jargon, buzz words and slogans with purposely obscure definitions, all of which are dreamt up by the best PR firms money can buy. Perhaps even worse, as Rosa Koire, who has experienced negative ramifications in her Santa Rosa community, writes in Behind the Green Mask:The irony is that UN Agenda 21 mandates ‘more’ citizen involvement but does it by creating so many boards, commissions, regional agencies, non-profits, meetings and programs that it is impossible to stay on top of what is happening. We’re too burned out to fight more than one issue at a time. So we become, necessarily, more fragmented, less of a neighborhood, exhausted and isolated because we can’t keep up. The so-called citizen involvement is dictated by phony neighborhood groups with paid lobbyists and facilitators running them. The boards and commissions are chosen based on ‘team players’ or shills selected to push through an end game by running over the few actual unconnected citizens. These groups are the ‘prescreening groups’ for candidates for public office. THEY are the ones who get donations at election time. It’s doubtful that anyone will get on the ballot who doesn’t play ball.There were 17 official sustainable development goals (or SDGs) for the new 2030 Agenda that was universally adopted by nations around the world at the United Nations plenary meeting in New York on September 25, 2015. These SDGs do not replace Agenda 21. The 2030 Agenda clearly states, “We reaffirm all the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, including, inter alia, the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.”A short article, titled “Agenda 2030 Translator: How to Read the UN’s New Sustainable Development Goals,” unveils some of the actual consequences of the Agenda. To start you off, Goal 1 as stated: End Poverty in all its forms everywhere. Goal 1 as translated: Centralized banks, IMF, World Bank, Fed to control all finances. Goal 2 as stated: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Goal 2 as translated: GMO. And so on.Another article titled simply Agenda 21 shows how big “S” Sustainable Development will affect the farmer:If you own livestock and they can drink from a creek, then they want you to permanently fence off your own land to prevent any upset of potential fish habitat… Agenda 21 focuses on the goal of eliminating meat consumption and using pastures to grow wheat, corn and soy for human consumption. To get us to comply, we’re told in endless propaganda campaigns that meat is dangerous and the vegan lifestyle is the only healthy alternative… “Grazing livestock” is listed as “unsustainable” in the UN’s Global Biodiversity Assessment Report. In the same document, agriculture and private property are listed as “unsustainable.” All the private property and water rights infringements we have been seeing come directly out of the Sustainable Development programs. They come in a wide variety of names to throw people off, such as Comprehensive Planning, Growth Management, Smart Growth, and so forth.The local government implementation of Agenda 21 was prepared by ICLEI(which stands for International Council for Local Environment Initiatives) for the Earth Council’s Rio+5 Forum held April 13–19, 1997 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; for the 5th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development; and for the UN General Assembly’s “Earth Summit+5” Special Session. Out of this came The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide put out by ICLEI and the United Nations.Resilient Cities are part of ICLEI. According to its website the organization was founded in 2010 by ICLEI (now known as Local Governments for Sustainability), the affiliated World Mayors Council on Climate Change and the similarly affiliated City of Bonn, Germany. Resilient Cities is billed as the first forum on cities and adaptation to climate change. In 2012 Resilient Cities was renamed as Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation.Smart Growth, Smart Cities and 5GSmart Growth and Smart Cities are also part of the “sustainability” plan as evidenced by their lofty sounding goals which somehow fail to look at “new” energy or even non-industrial hemp as a soil-rebuilding, environment-friendly way to provide a sizable portion of the nation’s energy needs; which fail to understand the crucial importance of restoring carbon-rich humus to the soil via holistic livestock management and other forms of regenerative agriculture; which somehow rely on the big banks and a flotilla of “investors” rather than doing the obvious by reforming the nation’s monetary system; and which, as Koire and others correctly assert, can only lead to totalitarianism in the end.The explosive, worldwide rollout of 5G networks “makes Smart Cities a reality” despite recognized and significant associated health risks. By September of 2018, thanks to an FCC ruling and carrier lobbying, twenty states, seemingly under cover of night, had already passed legislation to strip their cities of the power to regulate 5G rollouts. The FCC ruling in particular has sparked considerable push back, because not only will the FCC’s move force taxpayers to subsidize industry access to publicly owned infrastructure but, as chief information officer for New York City Samir Saini declared: “the FCC is threatening the public’s right to control public property, and dozens of cities, states, and towns from New York City to Lincoln, Nebraska to Anchorage, Alaska are ready to defend that right on behalf of our residents and taxpayers.”On top of all this we now find that the “tsunami” of data collection enabled by 5G could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025. As most know, wind and solar (both of which also have significant environmental and land use problems) just won’t cut it, and especially so with 5G.An Endless Web of Carefully Branded Commissions, Boards, Agencies and ProgramsOther groups and organizations tied to Agenda 21 continue to proliferate. These organizations include those that formulate “Climate Action Plans” now being adopted by local communities worldwide. The Center for Climate Solutions is one such organization and the California based Institute for local Government is another. You can google your state, city or county plus “Climate Action Plan and Resilient Plan” to learn more about how this is taking place in your own community. You can bet that none of them include alternative forms of “new” energy (including soil building non-industrial hemp) or regenerative (carbon-sequestering) agriculture which can only be properly practiced by small producers.An offshoot of the Regional Planning Association is America 2050 whose focus is on planning for the emergence of mega-regions, or high density urban areas, along with infrastructure development, with the aim of “shaping the infrastructure investment plan” and “providing leadership on a broad range of transportation, sustainability, and economic-development issues impacting America’s growth in the 21st century.” FEMA feeds into the development of megaregions through its Hazard Mitigation Program through which it, as well as HUD, provide grants to assist, at taxpayer expense, state and local communities with the purchase of properties located in high fire risk, high flood risk, high erosion risk, high mudslide risk areas.“Redevelopment” is another important and mis-leading buzzword, as it in truth represents an unknown government which among other things uses eminent domain for private gain, not the “greater good” despite claims to the contrary. As Koire writes in her book Behind the Green Mask:A little 40 page book titled Redevelopment: The Unknown Government put out by the California Municipal Officials for Redevelopment Reform lays out the ugly truth with charts, cartoons and hard data … Supported by powerful lobbyist groups fronting bond brokers, lawyers, and debt consultants, the trend of designating more and more redevelopment areas is also supported by government agency staff members and private businesses that profit from redevelopment. Diverting property taxes to these bloodsuckers is big business: by 2006 redevelopment agencies statewide (in California) had amassed $81 billion in bonded indebtedness, a figure that is doubling every 10 years. And don’t think that this is only in California – it’s in nearly every city and county in the United States. Because the agencies can sell bonded debt without voter approval (unlike school boards) and the city’s general fund is responsible for any over-extended debt, these are cash cows for bond brokerage firms.Other organizations tasked with promoting “sustainable development” and its corollary the “Green New Deal” include the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development or OECD, and the World Resources Institute.Food Production and Food ChoiceThe World Resource Institute recently published Creating a Sustainable Food Future which was produced “in partnership with the World Bank, UN Environment (UNEP), UN Development Programme and the French agricultural research agencies CIRAD and INRA.” On its publication announcement page, it asks whether we will be able to produce enough food sustainably to feed the estimated 10 billion people that will exist on the planet by 2015.As explained in fair detail in my book Climate Change, Land Use and Monetary Policy the answer is a resounding yes! Contrary to Agenda 21 fears, we will be able to sustainably feed, conservatively, 20 to 30 billion people worldwide if we change the way we do agriculture, which MUST include holistically managed livestock. In so doing we will dramatically reduce the amount of land now devoted to industrial agricultural systems and the amount of pollution generated by such systems – all while putting carbon back in the soil where it is needed to sustain life on this planet.At first glance the above-mentioned World Resource report also seems to agree, as indicated by this 2018 headline in a San Francisco Chronicle articletitled “New Report Urges Drastic Changes in Food Production and Consumption”. The article goes on to summarize the report’s version of “sustainability”:The core recommendations of the 96-page report line up with many of the innovations that are already happening, sometimes at a small scale, at many Bay Area farms, food companies and tech startups. That includes the development of plant-based meat substitutes, companies and local governments that focus on reducing food waste, and farms that are making changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions… The report calls on governments to fund research and development and to provide “flexible regulations” for new technology such as plant-based meat substitutes and innovations in plant breeding like genetic editing… Individuals should make changes to their diets, too, the authors say, especially in wealthy countries like the United States where the majority of animal-based foods are eaten … A lot of the technological advances the report urges are happening in the Bay Area. The region has become a global hub for the creation of plant-based meat substitutions, including those made by Impossible Foods of Redwood City… A new batch of companies is developing lab-grown or “cultured” meat that will be made of chicken, beef or fish tissue from cells but won’t require raising or killing animals.Green Grabbing, The Best Way to Save Nature Is to Sell ItThe 1992 Rio Earth Summit spawned a series of world summits on sustainable development sponsored by the UN. In 2012 the 20th anniversary of the Rio summit was dubbed Rio + 20. Its focus was the Green Economy with the specific purpose of ushering in global economic growth by putting market values on environmental services and environmentally-friendly production and consumption. This plan led to the term “green grabbing” which refers to the appropriation of land and resources – purportedly for environmental ends. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that, as this article in Bloomberg Online suggests, Wall Street Is More Than Willing to Fund the Green New Deal.Some illustrative excerpts which were taken from a 2012 article titled Green Grabbing Our Future at Rio + 20, appeared in my book Climate Change, Land Use and Monetary Policy. The article was originally posted on the Food First website, and was written by Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First. Some excerpts:The Rio process itself has been steadily privatized under the weight of 20 years of neoliberal globalization. As the global contradictions between economy and environment have intensified, nature itself is becoming a source of profit… What was once a state-oriented, regulatory framework has morphed into a market-based, corporate initiative.The corporate trend to privatize and commercialize ecosystem services and resources in the name of environmental protection is known as “green grabbing” as these schemes can result in local communities losing resource rights… It is the favored approach of the big conservation organizations like World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Conservation International (CI) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), who have thus guaranteed their place at the Rio+20 negotiating table alongside neoliberal governments and powerful multinational business interests.The Green Economy concept that determines the content of all submissions [for the Zero draft report] was itself created by a group led by Pavan Sukhdev a former senior banker from Deutsche Bank and head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative. This is a reflection of a long trend in partnering between the CBD, big environmental organizations and corporate representatives i.e. the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, the International Chamber of Commerce, CI, WWF, IUCN etc.The dubious justification for bringing nature to Wall Street—where credits and shares of ecosystem services, biodiversity derivatives, avoided emissions and even wildlife species banking can be chopped up, repackaged and resold along with debt, mortgages, hedge funds and the like—is that the best way to save nature is to sell it. In doing so, we are told, we will grow the economy and this in turn will benefit the poor, thus ending poverty and hunger.”Summing It UpIn practical terms, Agenda 21 is a global plan implemented locally through ICLEI (and other bodies and organs) using “soft law”. The following excerpts from an article titled “UN’s Agenda 21Targets Your Mayor” provide a useful example of how local implementation occurs:From June 1 through 5, 2005, the city of San Francisco was the site of an international conference called “World Environment Day.” But the agenda of this conference was much bigger than just another hippy dance in the park. This meeting of the global elite had a specific target and an agenda with teeth. The goal was the full implementation of the UN’s Agenda 21 policy called Sustainable Development, a ruling principle for top-down control of every aspect of our lives – from food, to health care, to community development, and beyond. This time, the target audience is our nation’s mayors. The UN’s new tactic, on full display at this conference, is to ignore federal and state governments and go straight to the roots of American society. Think globally – act locally.Here’s a quick look at a few of the 21 agenda actions called for. Under the topic of energy, action item number one calls for mayors to implement a policy to increase the use of “renewable” energy by 10% within seven years. Renewable energy includes solar and wind power.Not stated in the UN documents is the fact that in order to meet the goal, a community would have to reserve thousands of acres of land to set up expensive solar panels or even more land for wind mills. Consider that it takes a current 50-megawatt gas-fired generating plant about 2-5 acres of land to produce its power. Yet to create that same amount of power through the use of solar panels would require at least 1,000 acres. Using wind mills to generate 50 megawatts would require over 4,000 acres of land, while chopping up birds and creating a deafening roar. The cost of such “alternative” energy to the community would be vastly prohibitive. Yet, such unworkable ideas are the environmentally-correct orders of the day that the mayors are being urged to follow.”Rosa Koire, mentioned earlier, sums up the end game on her website Democrats Against Agenda 21:The problem that almost no one sees is that UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all information, all energy, and all human beings in the world. Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is about Inventory and Control!Beware Agenda 21 and its Green New Deal!