Rate My Professor Fernando Alvear

Alvear's research centers on epistemology, particularly social epistemology and virtue epistemology, alongside interests in moral psychology, pragmatics, and philosophy of technology. He co-authored "Deformative Experience: Explaining the Effects of Adversity on Moral Evaluation" with Philip Robbins, published in Social Cognition (2023, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 415–446), which investigates how childhood adversity influences judgments of moral responsibility. He delivered the talk "Fake Barns, Deepfakes, and the Epistemic Environment" at the University of Missouri in April 2024. Alvear taught several undergraduate philosophy courses at the University of Missouri, including Logic and Critical Thinking, Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, The Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion, emphasizing the development of students' intellectual character. He has served as faculty at the Missouri Scholars Academy since 2023, teaching philosophy courses such as "What's the Argument? Philosophy and the Art of Critical Thinking." Alvear is listed in the University of Missouri academic catalog under Philosophy with a Doctor of Philosophy from the institution.