Research

Listed below are my publications, organized by kind and year. If you have any questions about a specific publication, please feel free to contact me!

Papers

2023

2023. "Using Social Ontology for Improving Healthy Eating Policy." Ethical Perspectives [accepted]

2023. "The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-022-10357-x

2023. "Food and Climate Change in a Philosophical Perspective." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini). In Pellegrino, G., Di Paola, M., (Eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16960-2_71-1

2023. "Hot Grapes: How to Locally Redesign Geographical Indications to Address the Impact of Climate Change." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini). World Development Sustainability 2, 100043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2023.100043

2022

2022. "Food Identity and the Passage of Time." (with A. Borghini), Applied Ontology 17(4): 443-463. https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-221287

2022. "Eating Local as Public Art." (with A. Borghini), Aisthesis 5(1): 15-27 https://doi.org/10.36253/Aisthesis-13449

2022. "A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages." (with N.Feghali, B. Serini, A. Borghini, G. Zara, A. Bianco, M. Budroni), Human Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-022-00317-5

2022. "Learning from Covid-19: Public Justification and the Ontology of Everyday Life." (with A. Borghini, M. Bonotti, B. Serini), Social Theory and Practice 48(3): 429–456. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract2021211118

2022. "The Value of Local Food. Theoretical and Axiological Approaches." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), East Asian Journal of Philosophy 1(2): 1-4.. https://doi.org/10.19079/eajp.1.2.1

2022. "Eating Local. A Philosophical Toolbox (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), The Philosophical Quarterly, 72(3): 527–551. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab039

2021

2021. "From Philosophy to Ontology: Rethinking Food Concepts." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2021Episode VII, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2969/paper6-IFOW.pdf

2021. "Defective Food Concepts." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), Synthese, 199: 12225–12249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03330-1

2021. "On Interpreting Something as Food." (with A. Borghini), Food Ethics, 6(1) https://doi.org/10.1007/s41055-020-00082-5

2020

2020. "The Philosophy of Food. Recipes between Arts and Algorithms." (with A. Borghini), HUMANA.MENTE. Journal of Philosophical Studies, 38: V-XIII. https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/355

2020. "A Gradient Framework for Wild Foods." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C 84, 101293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101293

2020. "Food and Foods. Toward a Definition." (with A. Borghini), Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 14: 384-392. https://doi.org/10.4396/SFL2019ES06

2020. "Ontological Frameworks for Food Utopias." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), Rivista di Estetica, 75: 120-142. https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.7375

2020. "Metaphysics at the Table." (with A. Borghini, D. Donati), Argumenta, 5(2): 179-184. https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/202010.int

2020. "Fiat Boundaries. How to Fictionally Carve Nature at its Joints. Philosophical Inquiries, VIII(2): 85-106. https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v8i2.257

2019

2019. "Spatial Fictionalism. A New Solution of the Grounding Problem." In Davies, R., (Ed.) Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics. Exercises in Analytic Ontology, Bloomsbury, London: 58-79. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0007

2019. "Can a City Be Relocated? Exploring the Metaphysics of Context-Dependency." (with F. Bacchini), Argumenta, early views. https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/20200.bac

Book

2025

Gastrospaces. A Philosophical Study of Where We Eat. Routledge: London. (with M. Bonotti, A. Borghini, B. Serini)


Edited Volumes

2020-2022

2022. "The Values of Local Food. Theoretical and Axiological Approaches" (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), The East Asian Journal of Philosophy

2020. "The Philosophy of Food. Recipes Between Arts and Algorithms." (with A. Borghini), HUMANA.MENTE. Journal of Philosophical Studies, 38

2020. "Metaphysics at the Table." (with A. Borghini, D. Donati), Argumenta, 5 (2)

Other Publications

2020-2022

2022. "Il cibo come campo di ricerca in filosofia." (with A. Borghini, B. Serini), Le meraviglie del possibile (LUISS U. Press)

2020. "COVID-19 in Everyday Spaces: Social and Political Considerations." (with M. Bonotti, A. Borghini, B. Serini, S. Zech), ABC Religion and Ethics

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