Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating

by Matthew Halteman and Terence Cuneo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415806828
• ISBN13: 9780415806824
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"