One of the focuses of this course is to practice engaging in public scholarship, which means learning how to engage philosophical ideas and communicate these ideas with public audiences. For their finals, students produced public-facing projects in groups, on topics covering different aspects of our course. Before Spring Break, each group gave quick pitches for podcast episodes to be produced over the course of the remainder of the semester. However, given the shift to remote learning midway through the semester, these projects each evolved with the changing circumstances. They now take the forms of jointly-written blog posts, videos, and podcast episodes, each demonstrating how public philosophy can take many successful formats and be responsive to the circumstances of our world.

Each project is motivated by a broad philosophical topic area covered in this course – ethics, justice, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. In their own way, each also demonstrates the difficulty of isolating our thinking about food to one of these categories at a time. We hope that these projects invite you to engage these ideas with us, motivate further public engagement with philosophy, and highlight the ways that philosophical thinking can help us to interrogate and transform our relationship with the world, with others, and even with food.