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Food for Thought
Food, Glorious Food For Thought
Tim Madigan on what philosophy means to him.
“Food, glorious food!
What wouldn’t we give for
That extra bit more –
That’s all that we live for
Why should we be fated to
Do nothing but brood
On food,
Magical food,
Wonderful food,
Marvelous food,
Fabulous food!”
‘Food, Glorious Food’ from the musical Oliver!
It has been my great fortune to write a regular column for Philosophy Now for the past fifteen years, allowing me to pontificate on all manner of things that angels would fear to tread upon. My schedule has become less predictable of late, so I am retiring the column and passing the torch on to a new generation of thinkers, although I do hope to hold forth every now and then with an article, while I still have a few brain cells firing. I’ve been reflecting of late just how I got into the philosophy game in the first place, and I offer a few biographical confessions below.
Like the Molière character who is astonished to discover that he has been speaking prose all his life, I was astonished to discover in 1980, when I took my first philosophy course as an undergraduate at Medaille College in my hometown of Buffalo, New York, that I had been philosophizing all my life.
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