{"id":1433,"date":"2009-04-05T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:16:55","slug":"beer-and-food-and-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2009\/04\/05\/beer-and-food-and-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer and Food and Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beer and philosophy lineup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With good beer goes good ramble, I’ve always thought. Two of my regulars at the Malthouse — Clare and Jula — were of a similar mind, and organised for a group of people in likewise agreement to meet up at their place one Saturday afternoon (the timing was tricky, given the vastly different hours we all worked). It was ridiculously civilised; we sat around their kitchen table and talked about some tricky questions of ethics and metaphysics all tangled up in the notion of what counts — and what doesn’t<\/em> count, and why<\/em> — as a “person”. We were all coming at that from strikingly different angles (for myself, it was basically the main obsession of my philosophy degree…), which made for a spirited and fascinating conversation.<\/p>\n

And<\/em>, it went bloody-well with:<\/p>\n