Carlo Alvaro is an

Italian-American Italian Americans () are Americans who have full or partial Italians, Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeastern United States, Northeast and industrial Midwestern United States, Midwestern ...

author and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

professor at

New York City College of Technology The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) is a public college in New York City. Founded in 1946, it is the City University of New York's college of technology. Its main urban campus is located in Downtown Brooklyn. History City Tech ...

of the

City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY, pronounced , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven ...

. Alvaro regularly lectures at the

Fashion Institute of Technology The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a public college under the State University of New York, in New York City. It focuses on art, business, design, mass communication, and technology connected to the fashion industry. It was founded in ...

St. John's University (New York City) St. John's University is a private Catholic university in Queens, New York City, United States. It was founded in 1870 by the Congregation of the Mission (C.M., the Vincentian Fathers) with a mission to provide the youth of New York with a Ca ...

, and St. Joseph's University (New York). Alvaro is an ethical

vegan Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products and the consumption of animal source foods, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A person who practices veganism is known as a ve ...

based on virtue-ethical principles. As an ethical vegan, Alvaro is opposed to

cultured meat Cultured meat, also known as cultivated meat among other names, is a form of cellular agriculture wherein meat is produced by culturing animal cells ''in vitro''; thus growing animal flesh, molecularly identical to that of conventional meat, ou ...

arguing the desire to produce and consume cultured meat stems from a lack of temperance, magnanimity, and compassion. Alvaro also works in the fields of

philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known Text (literary theo ...

and

meta-ethics In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, ground, and meaning of moral judgment, ethical belief, or values. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by philosophers, the others being normativ ...

. He defends the existence of a

deistic Deism ( or ; derived from the Latin term ''deus'', meaning "god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation o ...

god In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being believed to have created, or for controlling some part of the un ...

based on the

Kalam Cosmological Argument The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the ''Kalam'' (medieval Islamic scholasticism) from which many of its key ideas originated. Philosopher and theolo ...

. Concerning morality, he is a

moral realist Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that t ...

Selected publications

*''Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul'', Rowman & Littlefielf, 2019. ISBN 978-1498590037. *''Raw Veganism: The Philosophy of The Human Diet'' (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment),

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, 2020. ISBN 978-0367435394. *''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

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