Introduction

Issues

What is the philosophy of food? What is philosophy anyway?

Required readings

• http://www.food.unt.edu/philfood This is the introduction of the book edited by David M. Kaplan (2012) The Philosophy of Food. Berkeley: University of California Press. It explains very clearly what the philosophy of food is about.
• http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/arg/ Philosophy emphasises logic and analysis. Here are some online tutorials on argument analysis. Read tutorials A01-A04. Optional: A05-A09.

Useful resources

• From the HKU Philosophy Dept: Introducing philosophy
• A good video introduction about what philosophy is: http://vimeo.com/14348757

Here are some books related to the philosophy of food: