#1301 Suki Finn - What's in a Doughnut Hole?: And Other Philosophical Food for Thought

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm here with a return guest, Dr. Suki Finn. She's now an associate professor in social philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London. And today we're going to talk about her book What's in a Donut Hole. and other philosopical food for thought uh Uh in our just to say that in our first interview we talked about the epistemology of logic, the philosophy of love and the metaphysics of pregnancy, and I will be leaving a link to it in the description down below. And Doctor Finn, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you.

Oh, thank you so much for having me back. It's really nice to see you again. Yes, so I mean uh uh before we get into the actual questions that you explore in your book How did you come up with this idea of exploring and presenting philosophical questions through Food metaphors. Yeah, so I really wanted to bring philosophy

kind of down to earth and make the questions that it asks more tangible and accessible for as many people as as possible. So it kind of functions like an introduction to philosophy. through food. And the reason I chose food is because Um It's the closest to a commonplace experience that I could think of. We all have some interaction with food, it seems. And we all think. And so thinking about food or

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