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Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture

Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food

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Editors:
  1. Samantha Noll

    1. School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  2. Zachary Piso

    1. Department of Philosophy, Facilitating Impactful Research, Hanley Sustainability Institute, University of Dayton, Dayton, USA

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  • The first book dedicated to the work of Paul B. Thompson by scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia
  • Integrates questions about the ethics and sustainability of farming with work on food and identity
  • Reads like an transdisciplinary conversation of humanists, scientists, and activists transforming our food systems

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Thompson’s Pluralist Philosophy: Fields, Farmers, Food, and Forks

    • Samantha Noll, Zachary Piso
    Pages 1-16

  3. Pragmatism, Problem Solving, and Strategies for Engaged Philosophy

    • Evelyn Brister
    Pages 17-32

  4. Through Forks to Fields: Backcasting Workshops in Japan for Designing Sustainable Local Food Systems

    • Kazuhiko Ota, Steven McGreevy, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Motoki Akitsu, Hiraku Kumagai, Nahoko Katano
    Pages 33-51

  5. Thompson on Functions of Pragmatism: Adding Food and Agricultural Valuation to the Philosophy of Technology

    • Raymond Anthony
    Pages 53-70

  6. What Do We Mean by ‘Industrial Agriculture’? The Example of the Irish Dairy Sector

    • Orla Shortall
    Pages 71-85

  7. Western Livestock Production and Their Challenge to Thompson’s Food System Archetypes

    • Jared L Talley
    Pages 87-102

  8. The Promise in Disasters: Reducing Epistemic Deficits of Food Systems for Sustainability

    • Ian Werkheiser
    Pages 103-113

  9. What Philosophers Can Learn from Agrotechnology: Agricultural Metaphysics, Sustainable Egg Production Standards as Ontologies, and Why and How Canola Exists

    • Catherine Kendig
    Pages 115-129

  10. Food, Focal Practices, and Decolonial Agrarianism

    • Lee A. McBride III
    Pages 131-143

  11. The Opposition to Animal Enhancement

    • Bernice Bovenkerk
    Pages 145-157

  12. Can the Taste of Necessity Be a Taste of Sustainability? an Examination of the American Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

    • Wesley Dean
    Pages 159-172

  13. “I Know I Am, but What Are You?” Paul Thompson on the Ethical Irrelevance of Dietetics

    • Lisa Heldke
    Pages 173-184

  14. Further Thoughts on Food Futures

    • Paul B. Thompson
    Pages 185-206
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About this book

​​This book explores the philosophical thought and praxis of Paul B. Thompson, who planted some of the first seeds of philosophy of agriculture and whose work inspires interdisciplinary scholarship in food ethics, biotechnology, and environmental philosophy. Landmark texts such as The Spirit of the Soil, The Agrarian Vision, and From Field to Fork revealed the fertility of food systems for inspiring reflection on our relationships to technology, the land, and one another. Rooted in philosophical traditions ranging from pragmatism to post-phenomenology, Thompson’s work nourishes projects in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and social and political theory, not only in academic philosophy departments but also in the social and natural sciences. This volume collects this diversity of thought in a tour of the many fields of food systems; from theorizing the sustainability of agroecological systems, to appreciatingthe quotidian practice of agrarian communities, to anticipating the impacts of emerging biotechnology, and to savoring the roles that food plays in forming our identities. Composed by an international crop of scholars working on the future of food ethics, the volume is a vital contribution to scholars and practitioners thinking through our relationships to the food systems that sustain us.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Samantha Noll

  • Department of Philosophy, Facilitating Impactful Research, Hanley Sustainability Institute, University of Dayton, Dayton, USA

    Zachary Piso

About the editors

Dr. Samantha Noll is an Assistant Professor in The School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (PPPA) at Washington State University. She is also the bioethicist affiliated with the Functional Genomics Initiative, which applies genome editing in agriculture research. Her research agenda focuses on teasing out ethical, social, and environmental implications of agriculture biotechnology, food systems, and other food-related technological innovations. Noll publishes widely on values and agriculture, food sovereignty and food security, food related policy, and local food movements.

Dr. Zachary Piso is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Sustainability Scholar through the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton. His work explores the social and ethical values at stake in environmental science, especially in interdisciplinary environmental research that draws on the social sciences in explanations of environmental change and resilience. Recently he is exploring ethical and epistemic questions arising in food systems research, including an ongoing study of ecological citizenship and environmental governance in Rust Belt urban agriculture. These public philosophical engagements emphasize stakeholder engagement and participatory methodologies that tie together interests in environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, and American pragmatism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture

  • Book Subtitle: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food

  • Editors: Samantha Noll, Zachary Piso

  • Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37484-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37483-8Published: 02 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37486-9Due: 16 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37484-5Published: 01 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 1570-3010

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Agricultural Ethics, Bioethics, Agriculture

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