Andrew (Hrsg.) Chignell

Philosophy Comes to Dinner

Arguments About the Ethics of Eating

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Everyone is talking about food. Chefs are celebrities. Locavore and freegan have earned spots in the dictionary. Popular books and films about food production and consumption are exposing the unintended consequences of the standard American diet. Questions about the principles and values that ought to guide decisions about dinner have become urgent for moral, ecological, and health-related reasons. In Philosophy Comes to Dinner, twelve philosophers-some leading voices, some inspiring new ones-join the conversation, and consider issues ranging from the sustainability of modern agriculture, to consumer complicity in animal exploitation, to the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cuneo, Terence (Hrsg.) / Halteman, Matthew C. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-136-57807-6
EAN: 9781136578076
Produktnummer: 19564668
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'210 KB

Über den Autor

Andrew Chignell is Associate Professor at Cornell University. His research focuses on Kant and other early modern philosophers. Topically he has worked on epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. He is the co-instructor of The Ethics of Eating Massive Online Open Course on Edx.org and a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics. Terence Cuneo is the Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Normative Web (2007), Speech and Morality (2014), and Ritualized Faith (2016).Matthew C. Halteman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College and a fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He is the author of Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation (2008).