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Whiskey and Philosophy: A Small Batch of Spirited Ideas
Fritz Allhoff (Editor), Marcus P. Adams (Editor), Charles MacLean (Foreword by)
ISBN: 978-0-470-43121-4
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384 pages
October 2009
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Foreword by Charles MacLean.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Start up the Still (Fritz Allhoff and Marcus P. Adams).

UNIT I The History and Culture of Whiskey.

Chapter 1: Scotch Whisky: From Origins to Conglomerates (Andrew Jefford).

Chapter 2: Provenance and Authenticity: The Dual Myths of Scotch (Ian Buxton).

Chapter 3: The Heritage of Scotch Whisky: From Monks to Surgeon Barbers (David Wishart).

Chapter 4: Women, Whiskey, and Libationary Liberation (Ada Brunstein).

Chapter 5: The Manhattan and You: Thinking about a Classic Whiskey Cocktail (Hans Allhoff).

UNIT II The Beauty and Experience of Whiskey.

Chapter 6: Whiskey, Whisky, Wild Living, and the Hedonistic Paradox (Robert Arp).

Chapter 7: What to Drink? Why We Choose the Bourbons We Do (Mark H. Waymack).

Chapter 8: The Phenomenology of Spirits: How Do Whiskeys Win Prizes (Douglas Burnham and Ole Martin Skilleas)?

Chapter 9: The Ideal Scotch: Lessons from Hegel (Thom Brooks).

Chapter 10: Where the Fiddich Meets the Spey: My Religious Experience (Harvey Siegel).

UNIT III The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Whiskey.

Chapter 11: As a Good Bartender Might: Whiskey and Natural Kinds (Thomas W. Polger).

Chapter 12: Heisenberg's Spirits: Tasting Is More Uncertain Than It Seems (Jerry O. Dalton).

Chapter 13: One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Buddhist Theory of No-Self (Steven F. Geisz).

Chapter 14: What Do Tasting Notes Tell Us (Ian J. Dove)?

UNIT IV Ethics and Whiskey.

Chapter 15: The Virtuous Whisky Drinker and Living Well (Richard Menary).

Chapter 16: Nasty Tempers: Does Whiskey Make People Immoral (Dave Monroe)?

Chapter 17: Whisky and the Wild: On Preserving Methods and Distilleries (Jason Kawall).

UNIT V Whiskey: A Sense of Place.

Chapter 18: Peat and Seaweed: The Expressive Character of Islay Whiskies (Kevin W. Sweeney).

Chapter 19: Japanese Whisky: ‘It’s Called Queen George, and It’s More Bitched Up Than Its Name’ (Chris Bunting).

Chapter 20: Whisky and Culture: From Islay to Speyside (Susie Pryor and Andrew Martin).

Appendix A: Whiskey Tasting Notes.

Appendix B: Our Favorite Whiskey Cocktails.

Contributor Biographies.

Index.

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