Carlo Alvaro is an Italian-American author and philosophy professor at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York.
Carlo Alvaro | |
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Born | Moncalieri, Turin, Italy |
Occupation | Professional philosopher and author |
Education | The City College of New York (BA) The New School For Social Research (MA, PhD) |
Subject | Analytic philosophy of Religion, animal ethics, meta ethics. |
Notable works | Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul [1] |
Spouse | Malaika D. Sims-Alvaro (2003-present) |
Children | 3 |
Alvaro regularly lectures at the Fashion Institute of Technology, St. John's University (New York City), and St. Joseph's University (New York).
Alvaro is an ethical vegan based on virtue-ethical principles.[1] As an ethical vegan, Alvaro is opposed to cultured meat arguing the desire to produce and consume cultured meat stems from a lack of temperance, magnanimity, and compassion.[2][3]
Alvaro also works in the fields of philosophy of religion and meta-ethics. He defends the existence of a deistic god based on the Kalam Cosmological Argument.[4] Concerning morality, he is a moral realist.[5]
Selected publications edit
- Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul, Rowman & Littlefielf, 2019. ISBN 978-1498590037.[6][7]
- Raw Veganism: The Philosophy of The Human Diet (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment), Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978-0367435394.[8]
- Deism: A Rational Journey from Disbelief to the Existence of God, Academica Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1680532456.
- THE BOOK OF RAW: Why and How to Become a Raw Vegan, Independent Press, 2022. ISBN 979-8829102739.
- "A virtue-ethical approach to cultured meat." Nat Food 3, 788–790 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00601-z.
References edit
- ^ "City Tech Professor of Philosophy Published in Nature". New York City College of Technology.
- ^ Dormehl, Luke (May 10, 2022). "Tiger steaks and lion burgers: Lab-grown exotic animal meat is on the way". Digitaltrends.
- ^ Marion (2022-11-04). "Weekend reading: Nature Food on Cellular Agriculture". Food Politics by Marion Nestle.
- ^ Alvaro, Carlo (March 2022). "Atheism as an Extreme Rejection of Rational Evidence for the Existence of God". The Heythrop Journal. 63 (2): 155–170. doi:10.1111/heyj.13978. ISSN 0018-1196.
- ^ ALVARO, Carlo (2020-01-01). "The Incoherence of Moral Relativism". Cultura. 17 (1): 19–38. doi:10.3726/CUL012020.0002.
- ^ Dombrowski, Daniel A. (2020). "Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul by Carlo Alvaro (review)". Journal of Animal Ethics. 10 (2): 206–208. doi:10.5406/janimalethics.10.2.0206. ISSN 2160-1267.
- ^ Tague, Gregory F. (June 2019). "Carlo Alvaro: Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul: Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2019, 214 pp, $95U.S., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1498590013". Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 32 (3): 487–492. doi:10.1007/s10806-019-09787-y.
- ^ Javanaud, Katie (2022). "The Ethics of Raw Veganism". Journal of Animal Ethics. 12 (2): 186–191. doi:10.5406/21601267.12.2.09. ISSN 2160-1267.