The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces

Bonotti, Matteo; Borghini, Andrea; Piras, Nicola; Serini, Beatrice

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“…In sum, as I see it, the theoretical effort by Barnhill and Bonotti advocates-albeit implicitly-for new avenues of research on the metaphysics and ontology of food, pointing out the need to provide a framework for addressing disputes regarding healthy eating efforts. Similar instruments have recently been provided with respect to other areas of dispute, including local food , geographical indications (Borghini et al 2023), and eating spaces (Bonotti et al 2023). The call is for experts in food metaphysics and ontology, to lay out a framework that can accompany specific policy effort, e.g., efforts about healthy food production, about healthy dietary habits, about healthy meals, about healthy food products, or about healthy eating.…”

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Healthy Foods, Healthy Diets, and Healthy Eating: Beyond Ethics and Political Philosophy

Borghini

2023

Food ethics

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Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy: A Public Reason Approach by Barnhill and Bonotti is a terrific effort to provide a systematic method for appraising the ethical aspects, broadly understood, of regulations and policies connected to food, diet, and eating. In this commentary I purport to highlight the originality and the merits of the volume by considering what it doesn’t accomplish in three of its parts. I first call attention to the specific construction of the subject matter, namely on the question whether to be at stake are eating behaviors, dietary patterns, or certain food items; while Barnhill and Bonotti do not problematize it, this question is arguably pivotal to design effective policies and to adequately assess them. Second, I discuss the technical concept of “constitutive evaluative standards,” used by Barnhill and Bonotti to lay out their view, as this part of their work calls for an alignment with research on the philosophy of nutritional science and, more generally, philosophy of science. Finally, I take up the technical concept of “accessible reason,” which plays a central role in ascribing the public status to reasons, advocating for a more thorough determination of this concept based on recent work in epistemology.

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Healthy Foods, Healthy Diets, and Healthy Eating: Beyond Ethics and Political Philosophy

Borghini

2023

Food ethics

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Healthy Eating Policy and Public Reason in a Complex World: Normative and Empirical Issues

Barnhill,

Bonotti

2023

Food ethics

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Who gets to decide what it means to live a healthy lifestyle, and how important a healthy lifestyle is to a good life? As more governments make preventing obesity and diet-related illness a priority, it has become more important to consider the ethics and acceptability of their efforts. When it comes to laws and policies that promote healthy eating—such as special taxes on sugary drinks or programs to encourage consumption of fruits and vegetables—critics argue that these policies are paternalistic, and that they limit individual autonomy over food choices. In our book Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy: A Public Reason Approach (Barnhill and Bonotti 2022), we argue that both paternalistic justifications for healthy eating efforts and anti-paternalistic arguments against them can be grounded in perfectionist views that overly prioritize some values over others. We therefore propose a more inclusive, public reason approach to healthy eating policy that will be appealing to those who take pluralism and cultural diversity seriously, by providing a framework through which different kinds of values, including but not limited to autonomy and health, can be factored into the public justification for healthy eating efforts. Additionally, the book adopts a ‘farm to fork’ approach to the ethics of healthy eating efforts: it engages with theories and debates in political philosophy, considers the implications of different theoretical positions for healthy eating efforts, and then develops a framework for assessing policies that can be used by researchers and policymakers. As well as offering a novel normative analysis of healthy eating policy, we also provide a theoretical framework that will be applicable beyond healthy eating policy to a wide range of public policy scenarios. We are extremely grateful to the contributors to this symposium for their thoughtful commentaries on our book. In this article, we provide a critical reflection on the issues they raise with regard to some key aspects of our analysis.

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Politicizing Political Liberalism

Badano,

Nuti

2024

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How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and anti-democratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic values? This question has become particularly pressing after the recent successes of right-wing populist leaders and parties across Europe, in the US, and beyond. This book develops a normative account of liberal democratic self-defence that denounces the failures of real-world societies without excusing those supporting illiberal and anti-democratic political actors. This account is innovative in focusing not only on the role of the state but also on the duties of non-state actors including citizens, partisans, and municipalities. Consequently, it also addresses cases where the central government has at least partly been captured by illiberal and anti-democratic agents. To put together our normative account, the book builds on John Rawls’s account of political liberalism and his awareness of the need to ‘contain’ unreasonable views, that is, views denying that society should treat every person as free and equal through a mutually acceptable system of social cooperation where pluralism is to be expected. We offer original solutions to vexed problems within political liberalism by putting forward a new account of the relation between ideal and non-ideal theory, explaining why it is justifiable to exclude unreasonable persons from the constituency of public reason, and showing that the strictures of public reason do not apply to those suffering from severe injustice. In doing so, the book further politicizes political liberalism and turns it into a framework that can insightfully respond to the challenges of real politics.

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The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces

Cited by 11 publications

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Healthy Foods, Healthy Diets, and Healthy Eating: Beyond Ethics and Political Philosophy

Healthy Foods, Healthy Diets, and Healthy Eating: Beyond Ethics and Political Philosophy

Healthy Eating Policy and Public Reason in a Complex World: Normative and Empirical Issues

Politicizing Political Liberalism

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