The Grindstone Purdue Department of Philosophy

In the final episode of The Grindstone's COVID-19 series, our guests share their thoughts on how this pandemic is changing, will change, and could change the world...for better and for worse. Topics of discussion include technology’s role in our experience of this pandemic, what the economic crisis might mean for the future, what we can expect as we return to school, when we can expect things to return to normal - whether or not such a thing is possible - and what positive societal growth may come out of these challenges.
Today's guests are: Dr. Audrey Ruple, Assistant Professor of One Health Epidemiology at Purdue; Dr. Kevin Harrelson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University; Dr. Jillian Carr, Assistant Professor of Economics at Purdue; PhD candidate in the Department of History at Purdue, Caitlin Fendley; Dr. Dan Kelly, Professor of Philosophy at Purdue; Dr. Nilupa Gunaratna, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Purdue; and Dr. David Bernard, an emergency pediatrics physician in Birmingham, AL.
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In the sixth episode of The Grindstone's COVID-19 Series, we explore the economic impact of the pandemic. We begin by revisiting the dilemma of choosing between our physiological and economic health. We then examine three specific aspects of the economy: the macroeconomic concern with the job market and current unemployment rates in the US; global food supply chains and the workers that comprise it who have been effected by COVID-19; and finally, the microeconomics of crime and crime reporting during the economic shutdown.
Today's episode features returning guests Dr. Kevin Harrelson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University, and Dr. Jillian Carr, Assistant Professor of Economics at Purdue University. We also welcome to the series for the first time Dr. Nilupa Gunaratna, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Purdue.
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In the fifth episode of The Grindstone's COVID-19 Series, we consider our bodies and minds as they experience illness and the current pandemic. To do this, we first share some personal stories about times in our lives when we experienced severe illness. We talk to Purdue Philosophy graduate student Tom Doyle about the phenomenology of illness, quiet and loud bodies, the concept of 'dis-ease', and the social dis-ease being caused by the pandemic. And finally we shift the conversation to mental health, mental healthcare, and the anxiety of social isolation and the uncertainty of such a disruptive virus.
In addition to Tom Doyle, today's episode also features returning guests: Dr. Dan Kelly, Professor of Philosophy at Purdue; Dr. Amy Martin, a bioethicist at IU Health; and Dr. David Bernard, an emergency pediatrics physician in Birmingham, AL.
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In the fourth episode of The Grindstone's COVID-19 Series, we return to our typical interview format to speak with Dr. Faithe Day, Assistant Director of COVID Black: A Taskforce on Black Health and Data.
We discuss the COVID Black Taskforce, its mission, and how it was formed; the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black essential workers; environmental factors in healthcare inequities in communities of color; how COVID Black has responded to the recent murders of Black lives at the hands of white police officers and white civilians; balancing the need for peaceful protests and social activism with the need to remain physically distant and to wear face coverings; and what people can do to support the push for racial equity and to dismantle racist policies.
Dr. Faithe Day is the Assistant Director of COVID Black and a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation within the Libraries and School of Information Studies and the African American Studies and Research Center at Purdue University. Dr. Day works on developing curriculum, data collection, and curation projects in collaboration with other scholars to identify critical frameworks and best practices to ensure an ethical and justice-centered approach to data curation, with a focus on Black and LGBTQIA+ community-based data and discourse. Some helpful links are below:
COVID Black Website
COVID Black Twitter: @COVIDBLK  
Dr. Day's post in the AMSJ Blog "On Teaching in the Time of COVID-19"
Thank you to Dr. Day, and thanks for listening!

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In the third episode of The Grindstone's COVID-19 Series, we look at how hospitals, and healthcare systems generally, responded to, were effected by, and may eventually change due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. We also consider the inequities and disparities in how certain populations, particularly here in the United States, have been effected by COVID-19.
Today's episode features returning guests: Dr. Audrey Ruple, Assistant Professor of One Health Epidemiology at Purdue; Dr. David Bernard, an emergency pediatrics physician in Birmingham, AL; Dr. Amy Martin, a bioethicist at IU Health; and Purdue graduate students Caitlin Fendley (History) and Tom Doyle (Philosophy).
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In the second full-length episode of The Grindstone's COVID-19 Series, we look at the disease itself, and put it into historical context. We begin by talking with experts about viruses in general, the ability of COVID-19 to make its way around the world so quickly, and why this only emphasizes our need to be diligent when going out into the world where physical distancing and wearing face masks is concerned, a topic we discussed through an ethical lens in the first episode.
Our guests in this episode are: Dr. David Bernard, an emergency pediatrics physician in Birmingham, AL; returning guests Dr. Amy Martin, a bioethicist at IU Health, and Dr. Audrey Ruple, Assistant Professor of One Health Epidemiology at Purdue; Dr. Kevin Harrelson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University; and PhD candidate in the Department of History at Purdue, Caitlin Fendley.
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