Recommended books
David M. Kaplan, Food Philosophy: An Introduction (Columbia 2020)
Alexandra Plakias, Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction (Broadview 2019).
Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa Heldke, Philosophers at Table (Reaktion 2016)
The Philosophy of Food. Ed. David Kaplan (California Press, 2012)
Food & Philosophy: Eat, Think and Be Merry. Eds. Fritz Allhoff and Dave Monroe (Blackwell 2007)
Elizabeth Telfer, Food for Thought: Philosophy and Food (Routledge 1996)
Leon Kass, The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (Chicago, 1994)
Food Ethics
Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings. Eds. Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett (Oxford 2016)
Paul B. Thompson, From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone (Oxford 2015)
Ronald Sandler, Food Ethics: The Basics (Routledge 2015)
Peter Singer and Jim Mason, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Rodale 2007)
The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and Land. Ed. Norman Wirzba (Counterpoint 2004)
Eating Animals
Philosophy Comes to Dinner. Eds. Andrew Chignell, Terrence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman (Routledge 2016).
The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat. Eds. Ben Bramble and Bob Fisher (Oxford 2015)
Jonathan Safan Foer, Eating Animals (Bay Back Books 2010)
Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating Meat. Ed. Steve Sapontzis (Prometheus 2004)
Food Aesthetics
Sarah Worth, Taste: A Philosophy of Food (Reaktion 2020)
Kevin W. Sweeney, The Aesthetics of Food: The Philosophical Debate About What We Eat and Drink (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)
Barry C. Smith, Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine (Oxford 2007)
Carolyn Korsmeyer, Making Sense of Taste: Food & Philosophy (Cornell 1999)
Journal Articles
Contact The Philosophy of Food Project.
Syllabi
Philosophy of Food (University of North Texas) - David Kaplan 2023
Food, Animals, and the Environment (NYU) - Chris Schlottman 2023
Food and Values (University of Hong Kong) - Joe Lau 2022
Philosophy of Food (Wellesley) - Erich Hatala Matthes 2021
The Philosophy of Food (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - Colin McLear 2021
The Ethics of Food (Wisconsin Stevens Point) - Jason Zinser 2020
Food Ethics (University of Colorado) - Jonathan Spelman 2019
Food Ethics (University of Oregon) - Erin McKenna 2019
The Ethics of Eating (University of Vermont) - Tyler Doggett 2019
Ethics of Food (University of Virginia) - Willis Jenkins 2019
Food Ethics (University of Kentucky) - Bob Sandmeyer 2018
Philosophy of Food (Georgia Tech) - Justin Biddle 2018
Good Food: Ethics and Politics of Food (MIT) - Sally Haslanger 2017
Food Justice (University of North Florida) - Erinn Gilson 2017
Philosophy of Food (Indiana University) - Matthew Adams 2016
Philosophy of Food (University of Central Arkansas) - Sharon Mason 2015
Philosophy of Food (Wofford) - MN Williams 2013
Eating Right: The Ethics of Food Choices and Food Policy (Rutgers) - Andy Egan 2011
Not philosophy but arguably more interesting
Food Media (University of Tulsa) Emily Contois 2019
Taste, Power, and Culture (Boston University) - Benjamin R. Siegel 2019
Literary Feasts: Representing Food in Modern Narrative (Middlebury College) - Sandra Carletti 2018
Food, Media, and Culture (University of Pittsburgh) - Ronald Zboray 2013
The Language of Food (Stanford) - Jan Jurafsky 2012
Literary Approaches to Food Studies (Pomona College) - Kayla Wazana Thompkins 2004
