Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee. Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses just how good coffee can be Caffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee trade, the metaphysics of coffee and the centrality of the coffee house to the public sphere Includes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at Gillies Coffee Company

Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brewCoffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day withan entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aestheticsmetaphysics, and culture of coffee.* Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffeediscusses just how good coffee can be* Caffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee tradethe metaphysics of coffee and the centrality of the coffee house tothe public sphere* Includes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at GilliesCoffee Company

Foreword (Donald Schoenholt).Editors' Introduction (Scott F. Parker and Michael W.Austin).PART 1 THE FIRST CUP: COFFEE AND METAPHYSICS.1 Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea? (MarkPendergrast).2 The Necessary Ground of Being (Michael W. Austin).3 The Unexamined Cup Is Not Worth Drinking (Kristopher G.Phillips).4 Sam. sara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karmaof Waking Up (Steven Geisz).5 The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee andOtherness (Jill Hernandez).PART 2 GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE.6 Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of theCoffeehouse (Scott F. Parker).7 The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing SocialChange (Asaf Bar-Tura).8 Café Noir: Anxiety, Existence, and the Coffeehouse(Brook J. Sadler).9 The Philosopher's Brew (Bassam Romaya).PART 3 THE WONDERFUL AROMA OF BEAN: COFFEEAESTHETICS.10 Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon (WillBuckingham).11 Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X? (KennethDavids).12 The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the EspressoAesthetic (Andrew Wear).13 Starbucks and the Third Wave (John Hartmann).14 How Good the Coffee Can Be: An Interview withStumptown's Matt Lounsbury (Scott F. Parker).PART 4 TO ROAST OR NOT TO ROAST: THE ETHICS OFCOFFEE.15 More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade(R)evolution (Gina Bramucci and Shannon Mulholland).16 Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as aPerformance-Enhancing Drug (Kenneth W. Kirkwood).17 Green Coffee, Green Consumers - Green Philosophy?(Stephanie W. Aleman).18 Coffee and the Good Life: The Bean and the Golden Mean(Lori Keleher).How to Make it in Hollywood by Writing an Afterword! (TheCoffee Bean Guys).Notes on Contributors.