Editors

Professor Paul B. Thompson holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University, where he serves on the faculty in the departments of Philosophy, Community Sustainability and Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has held posts at Texas A & M University and Purdue University. Thompson’s research and teaching has focused on ethical and philosophical topics in food and agriculture. He is the author or co-author of over two hundred articles in refereed journals or scholarly books. His book From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. It won the “Book of the Year” award for 2015 from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. His book The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics was released in a revised and updated second edition in 2017.

Michiel Korthals studied philosophy, anthropology, sociology and German at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Heidelberg. In 1985 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation at the Frankfurt School in particular on the work of Habermas. Between 1993 and 2014 he was a professor at the University of Wageningen. Korthals was a guest lecturer at Purdue University in West Lafayette in 2000 and 2001, at Turin University in Turin in 2003 and 2005, at Princeton University in Princeton in 2004 and has been a guest lecturer at the European University Institute in Florence since 2008. Korthals is the chairman of the Foundation for the Restoration of European Ecosystems. (FREE) This foundation is committed to nature conservation through natural grazing.