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Alexandra Plakias
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hamilton College, New York, US
Alexandra Plakias is associate professor of philosophy at Hamilton College in New York. She is the author of Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction (Broadview, 2019) and Awkwardness (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Written by Alexandra Plakias

essayFood and drink
Adjust your disgust
The future of food is nutritious and sustainable – if we can overcome our instinctual revulsion to insects and lab-grown meat
Alexandra Plakias

essayVirtues and vices
Make it awkward!
Rather than being a cringey personal failing, awkwardness is a collective rupture – and a chance to rewrite the social script
Alexandra Plakias