Ethics Of The Pandemic - Matt Beard, Eleanor Gordon-Smith and Bryan Mukandi

FODI Digital 09-10 MAY 2020.
Presented by The Ethics Centre, FODI Digital is a digital conversation series with leading thinkers and commentators on today’s dangerous realities, live streamed for free on the FODI website.

The series of online conversations takes inspiration from the original FODI 2020 theme of ‘Dangerous Realities’.

1.30PM 9 MAY ETHICS OF THE PANDEMIC
SPEAKERS: Matt Beard, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Bryan Mukandi

0:01:17 - Panel begins (Skips intro)

In stripping away so much of ordinary life, the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed a lot about us – not all of it pretty. It’s also confronted us with brutal ethical choices.

Who deserves to be saved when you're running out of ventilators? How much are we willing to give up so others can get by? Who gets to decide and what beliefs are shaping their decisions?

Step back from the day-to-day dilemmas of the pandemic to understand the crucial lessons and hidden costs of our choices.

Matt Beard is a husband, dad, pop culture nerd, moral philosopher and ethicist. He is a fellow at the Ethics Centre and the resident philosopher for the ABC’s kid’s ethics podcast Short & Curly. Matt is a columnist with ABC Life and New Philosopher, and the author of The Short & Curly Guide to Life. In 2016 he won the Australasian Association of Philosophy prize for media engagement. He has repented of his past life as an academic and now regularly appears on television, radio, podcasts, online and in print.

Eleanor Gordon-Smith is a writer and radio broadcaster working at the intersection of academic ethics and the muddy chaos of life between real humans. Currently at Princeton University, she has produced The Philosopher’s Zone on Radio National, appeared as the Clinical Ethicist on local Sydney radio, and taught classes on ethics at the University of Sydney from environmental responsibility to the philosophy of sex. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Meanjin, and on This American Life.

Bryan Mukandi is an academic philosopher and health humanities researcher, with a background in the practice of medicine in a resource-poor, sub-Saharan African context. His work is directed towards understanding and addressing the social configurations that improve or worsen the wellbeing of those served least well by society.
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