Parker Scott F. - Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate

VOLUME EDITORS

SCOTT F. PARKER has contributed chapters
to Ultimate Lost and Philosophy, Football and Philosophy, Alice
in Wonderland and Philosophy, Golf and Philosophy, and iPod and
Philosophy. He is a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books.
His writing has also appeared in Philosophy Now, Sport Literate, Fiction
Writers Review, Epiphany, The Ink-Filled Page, and Oregon Humanities.

MICHAEL W. AUSTIN is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Eastern Kentucky University, where he works primarily in ethics. He
has published Conceptions of Parenthood: Ethics and the Family (2007),
Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind (Wiley-Blackwell,
2007), and Football and Philosophy: Going Deep (2008).

SERIES EDITOR

FRITZ ALLHOFF is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy
Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior
Research Fellow at the Australian National Universitys Centre for
Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the
Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor
for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007),
Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and
Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). His
academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics,
ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of science.

PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE

Series editor: Fritz Allhoff

Not so much a subject matter, philosophy is a way of thinking. Thinking not just about the Big Questions, but about little ones too. This series invites everyone to ponder things they care about, big or small, significant, serious or just curious.

Running & Philosophy:
A Marathon for the Mind

Edited by Michael W. Austin

Wine & Philosophy:
A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking

Edited by Fritz Allhoff

Food & Philosophy:
Eat, Think and Be Merry

Edited by Fritz Allhoff and Dave Monroe

Beer & Philosophy:
The Unexamined Beer Isnt Worth Drinking

Edited by Steven D. Hales

Whiskey & Philosophy:
A Small Batch of Spirited Ideas

Edited by Fritz Allhoff and Marcus P. Adams

College Sex Philosophy for
Everyone: Philosophers With Benefits

Edited by Michael Bruce and
Robert M. Stewart

Cycling Philosophy for Everyone:
A Philosophical Tour de Force

Edited by Jess Ilundin-Agurruza and Michael W. Austin

Climbing Philosophy for Everyone:
Because Its There

Edited by Stephen E. Schmid

Hunting Philosophy for Everyone:
In Search of the Wild Life

Edited by Nathan Kowalsky

Christmas Philosophy for Everyone:
Better Than a Lump of Coal

Edited by Scott C. Lowe

Cannabis Philosophy for Everyone:
What Were We Just Talking About?

Edited by Dale Jacquette

Porn Philosophy for Everyone:
How to Think With Kink

Edited by Dave Monroe

Serial Killers Philosophy for Everyone:
Being and Killing

Edited by S. Waller

Dating Philosophy for Everyone:
Flirting With Big Ideas

Edited by Kristie Miller and Marlene Clark

Gardening Philosophy for Everyone:
Cultivating Wisdom

Edited by Dan OBrien

Motherhood Philosophy for Everyone:
The Birth of Wisdom

Edited by Sheila Lintott

Fatherhood Philosophy for Everyone:
The Dao of Daddy

Edited by Lon S. Nease and
Michael W. Austin

Coffee Philosophy for Everyone:
Grounds for Debate

Edited by Scott F. Parker and
Michael W. Austin

Forthcoming books in the series:

Blues Philosophy for Everyone:
Thinking Deep About Feeling Low

Edited by Abrol Fairweather and
Jesse Steinberg

Fashion Philosophy for Everyone:
Thinking with Style

Edited by Jessica Wolfendale and
Jeanette Kennett

Yoga Philosophy for Everyone:
Bending Mind and Body

Edited by Liz Stillwaggon Swan

This edition first published 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Coffee Philosophy for Everyone: grounds for debate / edited by Scott F. Parker and Michael W. Austin.

p. cm. (Philosophy for everyone)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4443-3712-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. CoffeePhilosophy. I. Parker, Scott F. II. Austin, Michael W.

TX415.C64 2011

641.3373dc22

2010034203

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDF 9781444393361; Wiley Online Library 9781444393385; ePub 9781444393378

For Dad, thanks for the Saturday morning walks to
Broadway Coffee Merchant when I was a kid, and for
Sophies World when I was a teenager.

Scott

For Dan, a true friend.

Mike

You know what Im going to do? she says to me at long last. Without
waiting for a reply, she says, Im going to make myself a cup of coffee,