Today's post is by Maria Cristina Amoretti and Elisabetta Lalumera . This is their second of two blog posts on applied philosophy of science and conceptual analysis in the time of COVID-19. Amoretti and Lalumera As philosophers, one of our interests is the interplay of facts and values in medical sciences. We think that debunking the myth of science as purely factual is a contribution that philosophers can usefully bring to society. We also think that science can be nevertheless objective and trustworthy, but not in virtue of being purely factual – as many philosophers have argued recently. In a recent paper , we focused on mortality statistics during the pandemic. Mortality data have been very salient throughout the pandemic, both at the personal level, by influencing our emotional uptake of the situation, and at the level of society, as government’s decisions are based on epidemiological models, which, in their turn, are fed by mortality data. When is someone’s death due to COV...
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