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After Dinner Conversation - Food Ethics

$9.95

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Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of food. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Edition Editor - Nicole Natale

Short Stories By (in alphabetical order): Scott Tierney (Author), R.K. Tilton (Author), Michael Shainsky (Author), Charles Williams (Author), & 6 more

Reader Reviews

  • “With Science fiction we can explore other galaxies and alien conflicts, but with philosophical fiction we can explore other minds and ethical conflicts. Let this book take you on a Phi-Fi adventure.”
    — William Irwin, Ph.D. - Philosophy Professor, King's College

  • “After Dinner Conversation has taken up the initiative to write themed collections of short stories that fit focused ethics courses – say, a course on bioethics, AI ethics, Tech ethics etc. These collections can offer a spine for such courses or individual stories could be added to a course as illustrative material to stimulate discussion. The stories are lively and engaging and followed by a set of questions to start classroom discussion. Also, outside of educational contexts, the stories will work nicely to stimulate conversation in families, elder hostels, youth clubs, or book groups. Give it a try – I trust that you will enjoy working with the material in this book!”
    — Luc Bovens, Ph.D. - Philosophy Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Complete List of Food Ethics Short Stories

  1. Meat Is Meat: A starving ship, catches a mermaid and must decide what's for dinner.

  2. Observation 292: Science discovers plants feel pain like humans, and are sentient.

  3. The Walnut Tree: A travel tour in Uzbekistan gets sidetracked to wonderful effect.

  4. Intervention: Bill has decided it's time to confront his brother about his obesity.

  5. One Hour: A journalist interviews the owner of a strange restaurant and has a meal that causes him to question his life.

  6. Mayonnaise: The inventor of million dollar "zero fat, zero calorie" food additive discovers her invention is killing her son.

  7. Exodus: A Jewish family traveling through space to colonize a new world is woken by the AI so they can celebrate Passover.

  8. Apple Pi: A couple uses coin flips to make decisions in their relationship.

  9. I Do So, Like Durian: A sheltered teen on a quest through Chinatown finds a new world to explore.

  10. Reginald's Party: A female interloper crashes an "emotions" wine tasting.

* After purchase you will be emailed a .zip file containing a .pdf, .epub, and .mobi version of Food Ethics, suitable for printing, reading on your Kindle, iPad, or other digital device.