These sorts of profiles often include what the subject ate at lunch with the writer. That narrative crutch isn’t available to me, because when I reached out to Massimo Pigliucci, he told me that, yes, ...

In this careful examination of the surprising connections between science and philosophy, CUNY-Lehman College philosopher Pigliucci (Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk) begins with "sci ...

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He is the author of How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life.

Massimo Pigliucci discusses stoic philosophy, an ancient Greek Roman philosophy established over 2,300 years ago. "You can think of it as the western equivalent of Buddhism," Pigliucci states, "it's ...

Excerpted from "A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control" © Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez, 2019. Reprinted by permission of the ...

What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, obviously the roads—the roads go without saying. How about guidance for how to live in the 21st century? That seems less likely, but in fact the last few ...

A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE: 53 Brief Lessons for Living. By Massimo Pigliucci. Basic Books. 160 pages. $12. While many followers of philosophy might opt for Epicureanism as a roadmap to an ...

Pigliucci (How to Be a Stoic), a philosophy professor at City College of New York, examines in this enlightening study whether it’s possible to get society’s leaders “to care about the general welfare ...