Alfino Projects

Alfino's Projects

I'm working on three main projects right now.

• 1 Philosophy of Food

• As I mentioned in class, I'm just starting to explore opportunities in this area, having spent some time getting a course together. My first conference paper in this area was this summer. I wrote a paper called, "Sourcing Values in a Food Philosophy" [1]. At that conference I was approached by an edit about book ideas and I suggested investigating the possibility of an edited collection of essays on "philosophical diets" to see if traditional approaches still make sense in light of developments in the agricultural sciences, ecology, feminism, and food studies. The conference paper hints at this arguement. The first part of this project is to do a literature search and engage in some communication with scholars who I think would share this perspective. My goal is to report back to the publisher, hopefully around November with an assessment of the attractiveness of the project.

• 2 JIE special issue (2019) on "Naturalism and Moral Responsibility"

• Podcast
• link to naturalism.org articles on Waller

• 3. Work on Freedom of Speech and related issues.

This is a longstanding interest in information ethics and freedom of speech, but recent work was motivated by contemporary controversies over free speech and an influential book I read, Timothy Garton Ash's, Free Speech. I wrote a review of that book, "Can the Enlightenment Bring Free Speech to Cosmopolis?" [2] and a conference paper, "The Universality of Free Speech"