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Orthorexia, Pollan and fear of food

Orthorexia, Pollan and fear of food

Posted March 17, 2010 by Jacques Rousseau

We can’t guarantee our health by mythologising “primitive” ways of eating and manufacturing food, as that may also blind us to the benefits that technological advances in food could offer.

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Preliminary thoughts

Posted March 29, 2008 by Jacques Rousseau

Much of what I’ve been interested in over the last decade or so has revolved around epistemology, and in particular virtue epistemology – in other words, questions around what it is that we should believe, and how we should form our beliefs. These are normative questions, and raise a whole bunch of issues relating to [...]

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