Massimo Pigliucci

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York

Massimo Pigliucci is a blogger and author, as well as the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He writes regularly at platofootnote.org and howtobeastoic.org. His books include How To Be A Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books) and Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism (co-edited with M. Boudry, University of Chicago Press).

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August 8, 2023

Conscious Evolution is a Category Mistake

No, evolution is not a conscious process, and to think so is an example of what philosophers call a category mistake, predicated on a fallacy of equivocation.

June 29, 2016

The Origin of The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: An Interview with Massimo Pigliucci

Are we witnessing a new synthesis for evolutionary theory?

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May 17, 2018

Is there a universal morality?

“…ethics has to do with how to arrive at as harmonious social interactions as it is humanly possible.”

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