Massimo Pigliucci
K D Irani Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York
Massimo Pigliucci is the K D Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His books include How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books, 2017) and Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers (with Greg Lopez and Meredith Kunz, The Experiment, 2025). More by him at https://massimopigliucci.org.
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Ethics
Stoics as activists
You might think of it as a philosophy for turning away from the world, but ancient Stoics took a stand against tyranny
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Consciousness and altered states
Consciousness is real
Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief. It’s a valid and causally efficacious biological reality
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Thinkers and theories
Richard Feynman was wrong about beauty and truth in science
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Values and beliefs
Human nature matters
The only way to construct a robust philosophy for life is to have a clear and realistic picture of what makes humans tick
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Cosmopolitanism
When I help you, I also help myself: on being a cosmopolitan
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History of ideas
Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it
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Values and beliefs
To be happier, focus on what’s within your control
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Meaning and the good life
On the happy life
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Physics
Must science be testable?
String wars among physicists have highlighted just how much science needs philosophy – and not just the amateur version
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Philosophy of science
Who knows what
For decades the sciences and the humanities have fought for knowledge supremacy. Both sides are wrong-headed
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