Following the pattern of From Field to Fork (OUP, 2015) Paul B. Thompson provides a highly readable and up-to-date analysis of contemporary ethical issues connected with food. Thompson reinterprets Peter Singer's work on famine relief in light of the history of funding development assistance through food aid, defends locavore diets against philosophical critics, and analyzes the ethics of food labelling in light of J.S. Mill's On Liberty. Further exploring today's key ethical questions about food, Thompson compares anthropological and toxicological approaches to pollution and defends a revised notion of agricultural sustainability. These topics provide an entry point for a novel approach in practical ethics that blends pragmatist philosophy of language, historical interpretation of agrarian thought, and recent philosophical writings on race and structural racism.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Little Throat-Clearing before Dinner
Chapter 2: Food Ethics Arrives (or Does It?)
Chapter 3: The Ethics of Food Aid and Famine Relief
Chapter 4: Local Food: The Moral Case Reconsidered
Chapter 5: The Ethics of Food Labels
Chapter 6: Pollution as a Moral Problem
Chapter 7: Sustainable Food Systems
Chapter 8: Agrarian Pragmatism
Chapter 9: Food Ethics and the Philosophy of Race
Bibliography
Index
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Paul B. Thompson is a philosopher of technology and the environment. He has held joint professorships in departments of philosophy and in college of agricultures at Texas A&M University, Purdue University and Michigan State University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Thompson was the inaugural occupant of the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State, where he taught courses in environmental science
and sustainability, as well as philosophy. In addition to award winning books such as From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone (OUP, 2015), Thompson authored over 200 research articles and book chapters.
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Selling point: Demonstrates how academic philosophy can better engage public issues
Selling point: Provides a deep analysis of key ethical issues in food systems, including engagement with work on race
Selling point: Proposes a novel approach to metaethics
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197744734
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
312
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