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).

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Written by Alexandra Plakias

A cupcake with pink icing topped with mealworms, surrounded by other cupcakes.

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Food 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

A busy beach scene with children on donkeys, people in the sea, a man reading on a sun lounger, and a dog urinating on a sun shade.

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Virtues 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