Gritty Philosophical Thinking about Food Justice Doing

Some terms for thinking about food access and food justice

Food justice movement: a movement that believes all communities, regardless of race or income, can have both increased access to healthy food and the power to influence a food system that prioritizes environment and human needs over corporate profits. The food justice movement also stresses that the cultivation of food systems that are both environmentally sustainable and socially just requires...

Computational Thinking … and Doing

A t our most recent CiSE meeting, one of the board members approached me during a short break and asked: " Why do you do this? you seem to have better things to do. " seeking clarification , i came to understand that he Was Wondering Why a computer scientist such as myself would want to be on the editorial board of a publication that isn't necessarily focused on the " tradition " of computer sc...

Natural Law, Justice and Democracy-Some Reflections on Three Types of Thinking About Law and Justice

Emotion, philosophical issues about.

We start this overview by discussing the place of emotions within the broader affective domain-how different are emotions from moods, sensations, and affective dispositions? Next, we examine the way emotions relate to their objects, emphasizing in the process their intimate relations to values. We move from this inquiry into the nature of emotion to an inquiry into their epistemology. Do they p...

Thinking by Doing and Doing by Thinking: A Taxonomy of Actions

Taking a lead from existing typologies of actions in the philosophical and cognitive science literatures, we present a novel taxonomy of actions. To promote a notion of epistemic agency we distinguish theoretical (mental state-directed) from practical (world-directed) actions. Our basic structural unit is that of a teleological frame, which spans one specific goal of an agent. Relative to a giv...