Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Pigliucci is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York–Lehman College, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk. His essays can be found at rationallyspeaking.org.
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Physicists against Philosophers
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.1, January/February 2013
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Singularity As Pseudoscience
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.6, November/December 2012
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What’s So Bad about Ad Hoc Hypotheses?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.5, September/October 2012
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Explanations in Search of Observations
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.4, July/August 2012
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Being Reasonable about Neuroscience
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.3, May/June 2012
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A review of Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga
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Psychoanalysis and Social Constructivism
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.3, May/June 2012
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Human Nature
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.2, March/April 2012
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Turing Test for Human Beings
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.1, January/February 2012
Book Review
A review of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us about What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian
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Hume vs. Rousseau: The Limits of Human Reason
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.1, January/February 2012
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The Hopeless War against Intelligent Design Creationism
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
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On Miracles–Again
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.5, September/October 2011
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Personal Genomics: The Fine Line between Science and Narcissism
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.4, July/August 2011
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A review of Here Is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics by Misha Angrist
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Popper vs. Kuhn: The Battle for Understanding How Science Works
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.4, July/August 2011
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The Science of Unique Events
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
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The Problem with Neurosexism
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
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A review of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
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On Time Travel
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.2, March/April 2011
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Where does the know-how to build time machines ultimately come from?
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Climate Denialism
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
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As I'm sure most Skeptical Inquirer readers are aware, November 2009 was "global warming denialism month." This is not an official United Nations...
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Is There a Difference between Basic and Applied Science?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.1, January / February 2010
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Humans like to classify things into discrete boxes. It helps us make sense of our complex and often chaotic world. A classic problem in philosophy is whether...
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The Moral Duty of a Skeptic
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
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I assume that most readers of the Skeptical Inquirer think that skepticism is a good thing...
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Logophobia
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.5, September / October 2009
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Logophobics have developed strategies to obfuscate clear thinking, which they deploy whenever pressed by a skeptic.
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On the Moon
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
News & Comment
There is nothing like new facts to add some excitement to supposedly established theories.
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Hard and Soft Science: Physics vs. Psychology
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
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It turns out that the replicability of findings in psychology is no worse than that of findings in particle physics.
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The Tree of Life
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.2, March / April 2009
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Darwin famously drew only one figure in The Origin of Species, which was published 150 years ago...
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Experimental Philosophy, an Oxymoron?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.1, January / February 2009
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Is it inconveivable, for instance, for an ethical philosopher to write a paper in that field as if he had never heard of...
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The Brain on Justice
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
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Justice, fairness and the efficient distribution of resources do not seem at first the sort of topics that should interest...
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Alternative Science
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.4, July / August 2008
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Theories and hypotheses are the outcome of creative thinking, and creative thinking requires imagination, not just knowledge.
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Creationist Peer Review
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.3, May / June 2008
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Arguing, teaching, and doing research means that one accepts the rule of rational, evidence-based discourse...
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Toward a Consilience of Sciences and Humanities?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
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In 1998, biologist Edward O. Wilson published a controversial book titled Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge...
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Is Intelligent Design Creationism?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
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The fossils produced by the paleontologist make a compelling case because they are of the appropriate morphology...
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Beyond Selfish Genes
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 31.6, November / December 2007
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Richard Dawkins' classic book, The Selfish Gene (1976), presented to the public the astonishing idea that...
