Nicola Piras
Biographic Data
| ID | 106775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Piras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Piras |
| SIGNATURE | PIRAS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6338-9354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The “Waste Argument for Eating Meat” Revised
Bivariate Associations in Multilevel Cross-Classified Latent Class Models
Multilevel cross-classified latent class models (MCCLC) extend standard latent class analysis to account for data nested within multiple groupings. These models often rely on assumptions of local independence, which require robust validation tools. Traditional global fit measures are inadequate for detecting local violations, leading to the use of bivariate residuals (BVRs). However, BVRs are computationally intensive, especially in multilevel co…
A Better Theory for Food Wasters
Eaters around the world, including the most conscientious ones, discard tons of food daily, without guilt or complaint, for a variety of reasons including far-fetched edibility (think of fish bones), a lack of place in their gastronomic tradition (say, banana peels in Italy), or a scarcity of conservation means (e.g., no refrigeration). However, at other times, the same eaters feel a sense of guilt or anger if, for example, broccoli go uneaten be…
Gastrospaces
This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative approach, combining analytic political philosophy and analytic ontology, to lay down the theoretical foundations for a multi- and interdisciplinary research agenda on the complex interconnections between food and space. Social science and humanities scholars have studied the ties between food consumption and space from multipl…
The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces
In this paper, we establish gastrospaces as a subject of philosophical inquiry and an item for policy agendas. We first explain their political value, as key sites where members of liberal democratic societies can develop the capacity for a sense of justice and the capacity to form, revise, and pursue a conception of the good. Integrating political philosophy with analytic ontology, we then unfold a theoretical framework for gastrospaces: first, …
Learning from Covid-19
Liberal democracies across the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing measures that significantly curtail the rights and liberties of individual citizens. These measures must receive public justification in order to be politically legitimate. By combining analytical political philosophy with ontology in an original way, in this article we argue that liberal democratic governments have so far failed to adequately justify the…
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages
Eating Local
Eating local food has become a mainstream proxy for virtue and a reliable model of sustainable dieting. It suffers, nonetheless, from genuine criticisms and limitations. In this paper, we suggest theoretical amendments to reorient the local food movement and turn eating local into a robust concept-comprehensive, coherent, and inclusive, affording a firm grip over structural aspects of the food chain. We develop our argument in three parts. The fi…
Defective food concepts
Our aim in this paper is to employ conceptual negotiation to inform a method of rethinking defective food concepts, that is concepts that fail to suitably represent a certain food-related domain or that offer representations that run counter to the interests of their users. We begin by sorting out four dimensions of a food concept: (i) the data upon which it rests and the methodology by which those data are gathered; (ii) the ontology that sustai…
A gradient framework for wild foods
On Interpreting Something as Food
In this paper we discuss the role that individual and collective acts of interpretation play in shaping a metaphysics of food. Our analysis moves from David Kaplan’s recent contention that food is always open to interpretation, and substantially expands its theoretical underpinnings by drawing on recent scholarship on food and social ontology. After setting up the terms of the discussion (§1), we suggest (§2) that the contention can be read subje…
A gradient framework for wild foods
On Interpreting Something as Food
In this paper we discuss the role that individual and collective acts of interpretation play in shaping a metaphysics of food. Our analysis moves from David Kaplan’s recent contention that food is always open to interpretation, and substantially expands its theoretical underpinnings by drawing on recent scholarship on food and social ontology. After setting up the terms of the discussion (§1), we suggest (§2) that the contention can be read subje…
Eating Local
Eating local food has become a mainstream proxy for virtue and a reliable model of sustainable dieting. It suffers, nonetheless, from genuine criticisms and limitations. In this paper, we suggest theoretical amendments to reorient the local food movement and turn eating local into a robust concept-comprehensive, coherent, and inclusive, affording a firm grip over structural aspects of the food chain. We develop our argument in three parts. The fi…
Defective food concepts
Our aim in this paper is to employ conceptual negotiation to inform a method of rethinking defective food concepts, that is concepts that fail to suitably represent a certain food-related domain or that offer representations that run counter to the interests of their users. We begin by sorting out four dimensions of a food concept: (i) the data upon which it rests and the methodology by which those data are gathered; (ii) the ontology that sustai…
A gradient framework for wild foods
On Interpreting Something as Food
In this paper we discuss the role that individual and collective acts of interpretation play in shaping a metaphysics of food. Our analysis moves from David Kaplan’s recent contention that food is always open to interpretation, and substantially expands its theoretical underpinnings by drawing on recent scholarship on food and social ontology. After setting up the terms of the discussion (§1), we suggest (§2) that the contention can be read subje…
Defective food concepts
Our aim in this paper is to employ conceptual negotiation to inform a method of rethinking defective food concepts, that is concepts that fail to suitably represent a certain food-related domain or that offer representations that run counter to the interests of their users. We begin by sorting out four dimensions of a food concept: (i) the data upon which it rests and the methodology by which those data are gathered; (ii) the ontology that sustai…
Learning from Covid-19
Liberal democracies across the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing measures that significantly curtail the rights and liberties of individual citizens. These measures must receive public justification in order to be politically legitimate. By combining analytical political philosophy with ontology in an original way, in this article we argue that liberal democratic governments have so far failed to adequately justify the…
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages
Eating Local
Eating local food has become a mainstream proxy for virtue and a reliable model of sustainable dieting. It suffers, nonetheless, from genuine criticisms and limitations. In this paper, we suggest theoretical amendments to reorient the local food movement and turn eating local into a robust concept-comprehensive, coherent, and inclusive, affording a firm grip over structural aspects of the food chain. We develop our argument in three parts. The fi…
The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces
In this paper, we establish gastrospaces as a subject of philosophical inquiry and an item for policy agendas. We first explain their political value, as key sites where members of liberal democratic societies can develop the capacity for a sense of justice and the capacity to form, revise, and pursue a conception of the good. Integrating political philosophy with analytic ontology, we then unfold a theoretical framework for gastrospaces: first, …
Gastrospaces
This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative approach, combining analytic political philosophy and analytic ontology, to lay down the theoretical foundations for a multi- and interdisciplinary research agenda on the complex interconnections between food and space. Social science and humanities scholars have studied the ties between food consumption and space from multipl…
A Better Theory for Food Wasters
Eaters around the world, including the most conscientious ones, discard tons of food daily, without guilt or complaint, for a variety of reasons including far-fetched edibility (think of fish bones), a lack of place in their gastronomic tradition (say, banana peels in Italy), or a scarcity of conservation means (e.g., no refrigeration). However, at other times, the same eaters feel a sense of guilt or anger if, for example, broccoli go uneaten be…
The “Waste Argument for Eating Meat” Revised
Bivariate Associations in Multilevel Cross-Classified Latent Class Models
Multilevel cross-classified latent class models (MCCLC) extend standard latent class analysis to account for data nested within multiple groupings. These models often rely on assumptions of local independence, which require robust validation tools. Traditional global fit measures are inadequate for detecting local violations, leading to the use of bivariate residuals (BVRs). However, BVRs are computationally intensive, especially in multilevel co…
Sociology (7 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (3 works)