Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking

Acknowledgments.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Planting the Vines: Fritz Allhoff.

The Art & Culture of Wine.

1. Wine in Ancient Greece: Some Platonist Ponderings: Harold Tarrant.

2. On and Off The Wagon: Wine and the American Character: Jonathan Alsop.

3. Muse in a Stem Glass: Art, Wine, and Philosophy: Kirsten Shilakes.

4. In Vino Sanitas: Fred Paola.

Tasting & Talking about Wine.

5. Mmmm… not Aha!: Imaginative versus Analytical Experiences of Wines: John Dilworth.

6. Talk about Wine?: Kent Bach.

7. Winespeak or Critical Communication?: Why People Talk About Wine: Adrienne and Keith Lehrer.

Wine & Its Critics.

8. What the Wine Critic Tells Us: Jack Bender.

9. Experiencing Wine: Why Critics Mess Up (Some of the Time): Jamie Goode.

The Beauty of Wine.

10. You'll Never Drink Alone: Wine Tasting and Aesthetic Practice: Ole Martin Skilleas and Douglas Burnham.

11. Who Cares if You Like It, This is a Good Wine Regardless: George Gale.

12. Listening to the Wine Consumer: The Art of Drinking: Steve Charters.

The Metaphysics of Wine.

13. Is There Coffee or Blackberry in My Wine?: Kevin Sweeney.

14. The Soul of Wine: Digging for Meaning: Randall Grahm.

15. The Notion of Terroir: Matt Kramer.

The Politics & Economics of Wine.

16. Wine Tasting Epiphany: An Analysis of the 1976 California vs. France Tasting: Orley Ashenfelter, Richard Quandt and George Taber.

17. The Old World and the New: Worlds Apart?: Warren Winiarski.

18. Taste How Expensive This Is: A Problem of Wine and Rationality: Justin Weinberg.

19. Shipping across State Lines: Wine and the Law: Drew Massey.

Index