February 4 @ 19:30 - 21:00
£3 – £6
The global food system is incredibly complex and in crisis. In his new book, How the World Eats, Julian Baggini argues that we can use philosophical tools to identify the key principles that should govern a food system fit for the 21st century and beyond, drawing on the empirical base of how humans have fed themselves across the globe and history.
This involves considerations of agriculture, ecology, animal welfare, human rights, nutrition and political economy. Philosophically, these require considerations of the limits of reductionism, the conception of justice, ethics and epistemology. Although the book is wide-ranging, Julian will also argue against the idea that we always have to trade-off depth and breadth, making the case that what we call “breadth” is just another kind of depth.
Dr Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including The Sunday Times bestsellers The Pig that Wants to be Eatenand How The World Thinks, and, most recently, How to Think Like a Philosopher (all Granta). He was the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine and has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint.
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