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Brighton, United Kingdom

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Martin Cohen is a well-established author specializing in popular books in philosophy, social science and politics.

I have a book being published November 2018 on the sociology of food this year, called provocatively 'I Think Therefore I Eat'! with an emphasis on how historical philosophers have approached the 'food issue'. It's a popular 'explainer' kind of book, already given a nice plug by Eater!

Food is very much an interdisciplinary area - though it is often treated in a narrow, specialised way. There is the nutritionist's perspective, the economist's, the cook's, the ecological... the list is as long as we want. And each perspective is 'valid', but only partial. So I think it's a good place to bring in a little philosophy.

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	101 Philosophy Problems 3.47 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 1999 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	101 Ethical Dilemmas 3.58 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2003 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition 3.65 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophical Tales: Being an Alternative History Revealing the Characters, the Plots, and the Hidden Scenes That Make Up the True Story of Philosophy by Martin Cohen (Goodreads Author), Raúl Gonzalez III (Illustrator) 3.45 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments 3.25 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cracking Philosophy 3.35 avg rating — 57 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Political Philosophy: From Plato to Mao 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit... 3.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Live: Wise (and not so wise) Advice from the Philosophers on Everyday Life 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Thanks everyone!

Many, many thanks to everyone who entered the Giveaway! Goodreads have now selected the lucky readers - one is from the US and one is from Portugal. If you didn't win, I 'hope' you checked out the free ebook! Because now it's had to come off the site, 'for copyright' reasons. But please contact me directly and I can still send you one.

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Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway

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“the problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions”
― Martin Cohen, 101 Philosophy Problems

tags: philosophy-of-science

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“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.”
― Martin Cohen, 101 Ethical Dilemmas

tags: ethics, philosophy, values-in-life

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“it is not places that are dangerous, but people”
― Martin Cohen, No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit...

tags: alternative-travel, politics-observation

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