Publications

Books

202?                Why God Does Not Exist, But god (lowercase) Does (Forthcoming), Oxford University Press

2022                The Book Of Raw: Why and How to Become a Raw Vegan

2022                Deism: A Rational Journey from Nonbelief to the Existence of God, Academica

                         Press

2020                Raw Veganism: The Philosophy of The Human Diet, Routledge

2019                Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul, Lexington Books

Articles In Refereed Journals

2024                The Ethics of Veganism and Plant-based Diets. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies

2024                Veggie Meat Alternatives: A Virtue-Ethical View

in Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering, Volume II, Current Status, Future Foods,and Global Issues. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group

2023                Ethical Subjectivism: A Lost Cause. Philosphy/Sociology

2023                The Heaven Ab Initio Argument from Evil. Religions

2022                A Virtue-Ethical Approach To Cultured Meat. Nature

2022                Meat May Never Die. Trace — Journal for Human-Animal Studies

2022                The Incoherence of an Evil God. Religions

2021                God and Kant’s Suicide Maxim, Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of

Culture and Axiology

2021                Atheism as an Extreme Rejection of Rational Evidence for The Existence of God.

The Heythrop Journal

2020                The Evil God Challenge: Two Significant Asymmetries. The Heythrop Journal

2020                Vegan Parents and Children: Zero Parental Compromise. Ethics and Education,

2020                The Incoherence of Moral Relativism. Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy

of Culture and Axiology

2019                Veganism and Children: A Response to Marcus William Hunt. Journal of

Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

2019                Is Animal Suffering Really All that Matters? The Move from Suffering to Vegetarianism. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

2019                Lab-Grown Meat and Veganism: A Virtue-Oriented Perspective. Journal of

Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

2019                Missing the Apes of the Trees for the Forest. (Association for the Study of Ethical

Behavior Evolutionary Biology in Literature Journal, ASEBL, 2019.

2018                Environmental Ethics: The Virtuous Way. Agri Res & Tech

2017                Ethical Veganism, Virtue, and Greatness of the Soul. Journal of Agricultural &

Environmental Ethics

2017                Veganism As A Virtue: How Compassion and Fairness Show us what is Virtuous

about Veganism. Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society

Articles Of General Interest

2024                The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven? The

Collector.com

2024                Moral Relativism Explained: Are Right and Wrong a Matter of Perspective? The

Collector.com

2023                The Pernicious Nature of Moral Relativism. The Global Development & Conflict

Analyst, July/August 2023

2023                A Few Simple Choices Can Change the World. The Global Development &

                         Conflict

Analyst, January/February 2023

2020                Herb Green the Raw Vegan and the Fate of Humanity. Literary Veganism

2019                Story of an Ethical Vegan. Bibliotekos

2007                The Golden Dawn. Perspectives

Book Reviews

2019    More than a Story, a Literary ‘Singularity’ Disintegration by S.E. Soldwedel, ASEBL, 2019.

2019    Can Animals Be Persons? Review of Marc Rowlands’ Can Animals Be Persons?ASEBL

2019    Abolition of Meat. Review of Jan Deckers’ Animal (De)liberation: Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned? ASEBL

Dr. Carlo Alvaro is an Italian-American author and philosophy professor at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York.

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.

Alvaro also works in the fields of philosophy of religion and meta-ethics. He defends the existence of a deistic god based on his version of the Kalam Cosmological Argument. Concerning morality, he is a moral realist.