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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