Rate My Professor Mark Alfano

Alfano employs methods from philosophy, psychology, and computer science to investigate social epistemology, moral psychology, and digital humanities. His research examines how individuals develop and sustain virtues, how values integrate into their lives, and how these influence perception, thoughts, feelings, deliberations, and actions. A key theme is the integration of normative philosophy with empirical psychology. He maintains a focus on Nietzsche, authoring Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology in 2019. Notable publications include Character as Moral Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Moral Psychology: An Introduction (Polity, 2016), Current Controversies in Virtue Theory (Routledge, 2015, editor), and Epistemic Situationism (Oxford University Press, 2017, editor). He edits the series The Moral Psychology of the Emotions for Rowman & Littlefield International, encompassing volumes on emotions such as gratitude, sadness, regret, hope, admiration, guilt, curiosity, contempt, anger, disgust, pride, compassion, and forgiveness. Alfano has published in leading journals including Philosophical Quarterly, Mind, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, The Monist, Erkenntnis, Synthese, and British Journal for the History of Philosophy. In 2025, he received an ARC Future Fellowship valued at $1,258,732 for the project ‘Building robust networks of trust in the Anthropocene,’ analyzing social media discourse on global warming to propose trust-enhancing interventions. His work has garnered over 3,000 citations and an h-index of 25.