Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone

Foreword (Donald Schoenholt).
Editors' Introduction (Scott F. Parker and Michael W.Austin).
PART 1 THE FIRST CUP: COFFEE AND METAPHYSICS.
1 Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea? (MarkPendergrast).
2 The Necessary Ground of Being (Michael W. Austin).
3 The Unexamined Cup Is Not Worth Drinking (Kristopher G.Phillips).
4 Sam. sara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karmaof Waking Up (Steven Geisz).
5 The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee andOtherness (Jill Hernandez).
PART 2 GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE.
6 Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of theCoffeehouse (Scott F. Parker).
7 The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing SocialChange (Asaf Bar-Tura).
8 Café Noir: Anxiety, Existence, and the Coffeehouse(Brook J. Sadler).
9 The Philosopher's Brew (Bassam Romaya).
PART 3 THE WONDERFUL AROMA OF BEAN: COFFEEAESTHETICS.
10 Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon (WillBuckingham).
11 Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X? (KennethDavids).
12 The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the EspressoAesthetic (Andrew Wear).
13 Starbucks and the Third Wave (John Hartmann).
14 How Good the Coffee Can Be: An Interview withStumptown's Matt Lounsbury (Scott F. Parker).
PART 4 TO ROAST OR NOT TO ROAST: THE ETHICS OFCOFFEE.
15 More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade(R)evolution (Gina Bramucci and Shannon Mulholland).
16 Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as aPerformance-Enhancing Drug (Kenneth W. Kirkwood).
17 Green Coffee, Green Consumers - Green Philosophy?(Stephanie W. Aleman).
18 Coffee and the Good Life: The Bean and the Golden Mean(Lori Keleher).
How to Make it in Hollywood by Writing an Afterword! (TheCoffee Bean Guys).
Notes on Contributors.