Massimo Pigliucci

About the author

Born in 1964 in Monrovia, Massimo Pigliucci is an Italian philosopher and biologist whose career bridges the sciences and the humanities. A professor of philosophy at the City College of New York, he has built a reputation as a sharp critic of pseudoscience — creationism in particular — and a committed advocate for secularism and science education. More recently, his work has turned toward Stoicism, bringing ancient philosophy to bear on contemporary life.

Few thinkers move as fluently between evolutionary biology and ethical philosophy.