Nevia Dolcini
Principal Investigator
THE MORAL ROOTS OF QUARANTINE
A comparative study of the moral and cultural dimension of quarantine in COVID-19 pandemic across East and West.
Team
Nevia Dolcini is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Primary Faculty of the Center of Cognition and Brain Sciences at the University of Macau. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, and cognitive sciences. In her works, she addresses topics broadly related to language, perception, and imagination, including irrational beliefs, self-deception, indexicals, and fictional discourse.
Mario Wenning
Co-investigator
Mario Wenning is Associate Professor at the Loyola University Andalusia. His work focuses on social and political philosophy from an intercultural perspective. His recently coedited volumes include Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature, Time, Responsibility (Routledge, forthcoming), The Human-Animal Boundary (Lexington, 2018, 2021) and Review of Culture (2020). Apart from his scholarship, Wenning has translated modern German philosophers into English (Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time, Columbia University Press 2010; Ernst Tugendhat, Egocentricity and Mysticism, Columbia University Press, 2016). Wenning held visiting appointments at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, UC Berkeley, Fudan University, Kyoto University and Universidad Comillas. He has been awarded fellowships from the Humboldt Foundation and the Mercator Foundation.
Veronica Valle
Research Assistant
Veronica is a PhD candidate at the University of Macau (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), with a broad interest in the philosophy of mind and its intersection with the cognitive sciences. Her current research aims to investigate the emergence of the ‘sense of presence’ in anomalous experiences, with a particular focus on hallucination.
Sun Weixian
Research Assistant
Sun Weixian is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the University of Macau. His research interest focuses on the ideologies in Chinese society. He is currently doing a research on the role of Confucianism in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican China.
Zheng Jingwen
Research Assistant
Zheng Jingwen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Macau. Shereceived her B.A. degree from Sun Yat-sen University (China) and M.A. degree from Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). Her research interest lies in Hegel’s social and political philosophy.
Chiang Io Fai
Research Assistant
Fai is an MA student majoring in communication at the University of Macau, Faculty of Social Sciences. He loves to make videos and help spread meaningful messages.