Lawrence Torcello

Experience

• –present
  Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
• –present
  Professor, RIT

Education

• 2006 
  University at Buffalo , Ph.D.

Publications

• 2025
  Climate Change, Disinformation, and Humanities-Based Inoculation against Zombie Ideas, Post-Truth's Assault on America's Schools and Colleges, edited by Joseph DeVitis, Leeds, Emerald Publishing, forthcoming
• 2025
  Peter Singer, Encyclopedia of Global Justice, 2nd Edition, revised and updated, edited by Joshua Kassner, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer Dordrecht, forthcoming
• 2024
  E Pluribus Unum and Back Again: Empedocles on the Law of Natural and Political Association (with Katie Terezakis), Empedocles in Sicily, edited by Heather L. Reid, Jennifer Ferris-Hill, and Jessica Decker, Siracusa. Parnassos Press,
• 2023
  Ethical Silence, Moral Framing, and the Role of the Humanities Against Disinformation: A Final Reply to Pongiglione and Martini., Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
• 2022
  Climate Change Disinformation and Culpability: A Sympathetic Reply to Pongiglione and Martini. , Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
• 2020
  Science Denial, Pseudoskepticism, and Philosophical Deficits Undermining Public Understanding of Science: A Response to Sharon E. Mason. , Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
• 2019
  Democracy and the Limits of Reason: Why a sustained defense of liberal commitments is necessary to counter democracy’s disinformation and xenophobia, Disputatio: Philosophical Research Bulletin
• 2018
  The Acceleration of Global Warming as Crime Against Humanity: A Moral Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment, Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, ed. David Boonin
• 2016
  The Ethics of Belief, Cognition, and Climate Change Pseudoskepticism: Implications for Public Discourse, TopiCS: Topics in Cognitive Science
• 2015
  Singer, Peter , In: Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. 3rd edition Robert Audi (ed)
• 2014
  What’s the Harm? Why The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an Ethical Problem (forthcoming), Ethics in Biology, Engineering & Medicine
• 2014
  Moral Agnosticism: An Ethics of Inquiry and Public Discourse (forthcoming) , Teaching Ethics
• 2014
  On the Virtues of Inhospitality: Toward an Ethics of Public Reason and Critical Engagement, Philo
• 2013
  Singer, Peter (forthcoming), In: Robert Audi (ed) Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press
• 2012
  The Trouble with Pseudoskepticism, Skeptical Inquirer
• 2011
  Singer, Peter, In: Chatterjee D (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. Vol 2, pp 1005-1009
• 2011
  Animal Rights, In: Chatterjee D (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. Vol 1, pp 40-43
• 2011
  Sophism and Moral Agnosticism, Or, How to Tell a Relativist from a Pluralist , The Pluralist Vol.6 No.2 pp. 87-108
• 2011
  Separation of Church and State , In: Chatterjee D (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. Vol 2, pp 995-999
• 2011
  Liberal Pluralism, In: Chatterjee D (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. Vol 2, pp 647-650
• 2009
  A Precautionary Tale: Separating the Infant from the Fetus, Res Publica, Vol. 15, No.1, pp.17-31
• 2008
  Is The State Endorsement of Any Marriage Justifiable? Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and the Marriage Privatization Model, Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 43-59
• 2000
  The Commercialization of Human Body Parts: A Reappraisal from a Protestant Perspective (with Steve Wear) , Christian Bioethics, Vol. 6. No. 2, pp. 153-69

Professional Memberships

• American Philosophical Association