Sailing - Philosophy For Everyone: Catching the Drift of Why We Sail

About Goold

Editor Patrick Goold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College. His current research focuses on defining rationality. He is co-editor with Steven Emmanuel of the Blackwell anthology Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Nietzsche. Patrick is passionate about sailing and in addition to maintaining a small daysailer and a cruising boat of his own frequently crews on the boats of others. The bays and sounds of Virginia and North Carolina are his home waters but he has sailed the length of the East Coast of the United States from Hilton Head to Long Island Sound made a Bermuda crossing done club racing in Brittany and cruised in the Lesser Antilles. Series Editor Fritz Allhoff is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy department at Western Michigan University as well as a senior research fellow at the Australian National Universitys Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series he is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles including Wine and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell 2007) Whiskey and Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams Wiley 2009) and Food and Philosophy (with Dave Monroe Wiley-Blackwell 2007).  His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics ethical theory and the history and philosophy of science.