Researcher Profile

  • Associate Professor

  • Marks work encompasses subfields in philosophy (epistemology, moral psychology, philosophy of science), social science (social psychology, personality psychology), and computer science. He also brings digital humanities methods to bear on both contemporary problems and the history of philosophy (especially Nietzsche). He has have experience with R, Gephi, and Tableau.

  • Marks work encompasses subfields in philosophy (epistemology, moral psychology, philosophy of science), social science (social psychology, personality psychology), and computer science. He also brings digital humanities methods to bear on both contemporary problems and the history of philosophy (especially Nietzsche). Mark has experience with R, Gephi, and Tableau.

  • Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Alfano, M. … Boggio, P. (2021). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations. Nature Communications.

    Bak-Coleman, J., Alfano, M., Barfuss, W., Bergstom, C., Centeno, M., Couzin, I., Donges, J., Galesic, M., Gersick, A., Jacquet, J., Kao, A., Moran, R., Patterson, T., Romanczuk, P., Rubenstein, D., Tombak, K.,Van Bavel, J., & Weber, E. (2021). Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. 118(27), e2025764118.

    Meyer, M., de Bruin, B., & Alfano, M. (2021). Development and validation of the epistemic vice scale. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

    Alfano, M. (2021). Elections, civic trust, and digital literacy: The promise of blockchain as a basis for common knowledge. Northern European Journal of Philosophy, 22(1): 97-110.

    Alfano, M. (2021). Virtues for agents in directed social networks. Synthese.

    Connor, P., Sullivan, E., Alfano, M., & Tintarev, N. (2020). Motivated numeracy and active reasoning in a Western European sample. Behavioral Public Policy.

    Alfano, M., Carter, J. A., Ebrahimi Fard, A., Clutton, P., & Klein, C. (2020). Technologically scaffolded atypical cognition: The case of YouTube’s recommender system. Synthese.

    Sullivan, E., Sondag, M., Rutter, I., Meulemans, W., Cunningham, S., Speckmann, B. & Alfano, M. (2020). Vulnerability in social epistemic networks. International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

    Alfano, M., Carter, J. A., & Cheong, M. (2018). Technological seduction and self-radicalization. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(3): 298-322.

    Alfano, M., Higgins, A., & Levernier, J. (2018). Identifying virtues and values through obituary data-mining. Journal of Value Inquiry, 52(1): 59-79.

  • Social Network Analysis And Network Disruption; Online Behaviour And Profiling; Social Influence – Micro, Meso And Macro Levels; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism; Social, Cognitive, Ethical and Legal Aspects Of Big Data And AIML; and Analytical Reasoning.


  • Twitter Handle     @moral_psych
    Email Address mark.alfano@gmail.com

 

Mark Alfano

Overview

Mark Alfano is Associate Professor of philosophy at Macquarie University. He received a doctorate from the Philosophy Program of the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY GC) in 2011, and he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study and the Princeton University Center for Human Values, as well as assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon, associate professor of ethics & philosophy of technology at Delft University of Technology, and professorial fellow at Australian Catholic University. Mark works on social epistemology, moral psychology, and digital humanities. He also maintains an interest in Nietzsche, including a recent monograph titled Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology. His papers have appeared in numerous journals, including Philosophical Quarterly, Mind, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, The Monist, Erkenntnis, Synthese, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. (SOURCED FROM MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY WEBSITE)