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Mask-Less Shopping Is Like Drunk Driving, Jonathan Spelman
Mask-Less Shopping Is Like Drunk Driving, Jonathan Spelman
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many states in the U.S. issued stayat-home orders that prohibited people from leaving their homes except to access essential services. Upon reopening, a number of those states passed mask mandates requiring people to wear face coverings while in public, but as I write this, in October of 2020, there remain a substantial number of states that have not outlawed what I’ll call ‘maskless shopping’. This is a mistake. After describing the standard, public health argument for outlawing mask-less shopping and explaining why it fails, I give a better argument for outlawing mask-less shopping that …
Mike Dewine, Mask Mandates, And The Value Of Moral Philosophy, Jonathan Spelman
Mike Dewine, Mask Mandates, And The Value Of Moral Philosophy, Jonathan Spelman
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
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Two Concepts Of Community, Erica L. Neely
Two Concepts Of Community, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
Communities play an important role in many areas of philosophy, ranging from epistemology through social and political philosophy. However, two notions of community are often conflated. The descriptive concept of community takes a community to be a collection of individuals satisfying a particular description. The relational concept of community takes a community to consist of more than a set of members satisfying a particular trait; there must also be a relation of recognition among the members or between the members and the community as a whole. The descriptive concept is simpler, however, it does not provide a sufficiently robust concept …