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.

His first book, Character as Moral Fiction, argues that the challenge to virtue ethics spearheaded by John Doris and Gilbert Harman should be co-opted, not resisted. His second monograph, Moral Psychology: An Introduction, was published by Polity Press in 2016. In more recent work, he has developed a multi-dimensional measure of intellectual humility. He is the editor of a series on The Moral Psychology of the Emotions, which include books on gratitude, sadness, regret, hope, admiration, guilt, curiosity, contempt, anger, disgust, pride, compassion, and forgiveness.

My twin brother, Edward James Alfano, died in a climbing accident in 2015. He devoted his short career to helping to solve the world's energy crisis. He is sorely missed. Donations in his memory can be made to the Union of Concerned Scientists.