Massimo Pigliucci (Italian: [ˈmassimo piʎˈʎuttʃi]; born January 16, 1964) is an Italian-American philosopher and biologist who is professor of philosophy...
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television actor Massimo Pigliucci (born 1964), Italian-American Philosopher Massimo Pigoli (born 1958), Italian auto racing driver Massimo Piloni (born 1948)...
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inception in 2010, sharing the show with co-host and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci and produced by Benny Pollak until 2015. Galef was born in 1983 in...
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is denied by other philosophers of mind, such as Daniel Dennett, Massimo Pigliucci, Thomas Metzinger, Patricia Churchland, and Keith Frankish, and by...
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of embryology with genetics and evolution, starting in 1977, and Massimo Pigliucci's and Gerd B. Müller's proposed extended evolutionary synthesis of...
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Norton & Company. ISBN 0393004597. "Massimo Pigliucci on Seneca's Stoic philosophy of happiness – Massimo Pigliucci | Aeon Classics". Aeon. Retrieved 19...
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Niles Eldredge in the 1980s, and was reconceptualized in 2007 by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller. The extended evolutionary synthesis revisits the...
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resulted in a tiny statistical deviation from chance. According to Massimo Pigliucci, the results from PEAR can be explained without invoking the paranormal...
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don't care." In March 2014, philosopher and secularism proponent Massimo Pigliucci asked Tyson: "What is it you think about God?" Tyson replied: "I remain...
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have studied mechanical and thermal devices based on Casimir forces. Massimo Pigliucci called Puthoff's hopes to extract zero-point energy as running contrary...
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continues its annual celebration. Independently, in 1997, Professor Massimo Pigliucci initiated an annual Darwin Day event at the University of Tennessee...
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Kent Hovind, Ali Sina of Faith Freedom International, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, and Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society. At its end...
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evolution supporters. In 2005, he debated Massimo Pigliucci on the PBS talk show Uncommon Knowledge. Pigliucci said that Wells "clearly lied" during his...
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Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci wrote for his blog Footnotes to Plato, a blog post titled "Should the ignorant be denied access to audiences?" Pigliucci questions...
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as misunderstanding the nature and application of Occam's razor; Massimo Pigliucci reminds that "Occam's razor is just a useful heuristic, it should...
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In particular, Massimo Pigliucci criticized Morris' omission of material that interfered with his "mission" and "beliefs". Pigliucci also criticized...
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cognitive scientist Steven Pinker; philosophers Daniel Dennett and Massimo Pigliucci; stage magicians and debunkers James Randi and Penn & Teller; Amy...
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in all members of one population and in no members of any other." Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan argue that human races do exist, and that they...
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Philosophy (Summer 2013 ed.). Stanford University. Retrieved 19 June 2014. Massimo Pigliucci, David Chalmers (Dec 18, 2020). Philosophy Day 2020: David Chalmers...
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gained most acceptance among physicians and institutions. Academics Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry describe acupuncture as a "borderlands science"...
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philosopher, author, and essayist who wrote The Revolt of the Masses. Massimo Pigliucci (1964–): Italian philosopher of science, outspoken critic of creationism...
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and exhibits biased thinking. In The Quarterly Review of Biology, Massimo Pigliucci described the book as "a short and sensible manual for its [the brain's]...
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fields, followed by a chapter-length reply by Gould. According to Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan, "After the ‘Spandrels paper’, evolutionists were...
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organizations having criticized creationism as not science. Professor Massimo Pigliucci, a professor of ecology and evolution at the State University of New...
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Benatar is just empirically wrong that life is dominated by suffering." Massimo Pigliucci argues that David Benatar's essential premise that pleasure is the...
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century racial biases". Biologists and philosophers Jonathan Kaplan, Massimo Pigliucci, and Joshua Alexander Banta also published a critique of the group's...
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has debated panpsychism against thinkers as diverse as physicalist Massimo Pigliucci and idealist Bernardo Kastrup. In 2021, the Journal of Consciousness...
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by Ursula Goodenough Gould's Separate "Magisteria" – by Mark Durm, Massimo Pigliucci, Skeptical Inquirer The religious views of Stephen Gould and Charles...
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atheist and was willing to accept the existence of a divine creator. Massimo Pigliucci, who debated Gish five times, said that Gish ignored evidence contrary...
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interviews feature well-known scientists or skeptics, for instance Massimo Pigliucci or Joe Nickell. Rarely the guests are proponents of fringe or pseudoscientific...
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