Carlo Alvaro

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
Carlo Alvaro in 2024
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
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

• 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

1. "City Tech Professor of Philosophy Published in Nature". New York City College of Technology.
2. Dormehl, Luke (May 10, 2022). "Tiger steaks and lion burgers: Lab-grown exotic animal meat is on the way". Digitaltrends.
3. Marion (2022-11-04). "Weekend reading: Nature Food on Cellular Agriculture". Food Politics by Marion Nestle.
4. 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.
5. ALVARO, Carlo (2020-01-01). "The Incoherence of Moral Relativism". Cultura. 17 (1): 19–38. doi:10.3726/CUL012020.0002.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.