Plakias Presents on Food Philosophy, Awkwardness

In early June, Associate Professor of Philosophy Alexandra Plakias presented “The Right to Know? Technology, Transparency, and Trust” at the Association for the Study of Food and Society at Syracuse University. Her talk was part of a session focused on “New work in philosophy of food: What is food? What should it be?”

Later that month, Plakias discussed her recent book, Awkwardness: A Theory, in a Canadian Philosophical Association author-meets-critics session on moral psychology at McGill University in Montreal. Plakias' book highlights "how we ostracize and punish those who fail to fit into existing social categories; how we all depend on -- and are limited by -- social scripts and norms for guidance; and how these norms frequently let us down when we need them.” Awkwardness was published in January by Oxford University Press.