Whiskey & philosophy : a small batch of spirited ideas

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Introduction: Start up the still / Fritz Allhoff and Marcus P. Adams

Scotch whisky : from origins to conglomerates / Andrew Jefford

Provenance and authenticity : the dual myths of Scotch / Ian Buxton

The heritage of Scotch whisky : from monks to surgeon barbers / David Wishart

Women, whiskey, and libationary liberation / Ada Brunstein

The Manhattan and you : thinking about a classic whiskey cocktail / Hans Allhoff

Whiskey, whisky, wild living, and the hedonistic paradox / Robert Arp

What to drink? Why we choose the bourbons we do / Mark H. Waymack

The phenomenology of spirits : how do whiskeys win prizes? / Douglas Burnham and Ole Martin Skilleås

The ideal Scotch : lessons from Hegel / Thom Brooks

Where the fiddich meets the spey: my religious experience / Harvey Siegel

As a good bartender might : whiskey and natural kinds / Thomas W. Polger

Heisenberg's spirits : tasting is more uncertain than it seems / Jerry O. Dalton

bourbon, one Scotch, and one Buddhist theory of no-self / Steven F. Geisz

What do tasting notes tell us? / Ian J. Dove

The virtuous whisky drinker and living well / Richard Menary

Nasty tempers : does whiskey make people immoral? / Dave Monroe

Whisky and the wild : on preserving methods and distilleries / Jason Kawall

Peat and seaweed : the expressive character of Islay whiskies / Kevin W. Sweeney

Japanese whisky : "it's called Queen George, and it's more bitched up than its name" / Chris Bunting

Whisky and culture : from Islay to Speyside / Susie Pryor and Andrew Martin