Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn't Worth Drinking

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5430-7

Paperback

248 pages

November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

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Humourously examines a myriad of philosophical concerns related to beer
consumption
Effectively demonstrates how real philosophical issues exist just below the surface of our everyday activities
Divided into four sections: “The Art of the Beer”; “The Ethics of Beer: Pleasures, Freedom, and Character”; “The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Beer”; and “Beer in the History of Philosophy”
Uses the context of beer to expose George Berkeley’s views on fermented beverages as a medical cure; to inspect Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism through beer goggles, and to sort out Friedrich Nietzsche’s simultaneous praise and condemnation of intoxication
Argues that beer drives the human condition, even if the human is in no condition to drive