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Recorded October 2016. Massimo Pigliucci ( Italian: [ˈmassimo piʎˈʎuttʃi]; born January 16, 1964) [ 1 ] is an Italian-American philosopher and biologist who is professor of philosophy at the City College of New York, [ 2 ] former co-host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast, [ 3 ] and former editor in chief for the online magazine Scientia ...
The philosopher Massimo Pigliucci argued in 2013 that the hard problem is misguided, resulting from a "category mistake". [17] He said: "Of course an explanation isn't the same as an experience, but that's because the two are completely independent categories, like colors and triangles.
Massimo Pigliucci, a leading proponent of the extended evolutionary synthesis in its 2007 form The idea of an extended synthesis was relaunched in 2007 by Massimo Pigliucci , [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] and Gerd B. Müller , [ 38 ] [ 52 ] with a book in 2010 titled Evolution: The Extended Synthesis , which has served as a launching point for work on ...
The modern synthesis[ a] was the early 20th-century synthesis of Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel 's ideas on heredity into a joint mathematical framework. Julian Huxley coined the term in his 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. The synthesis combined the ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and ...
For example, during the debate, Gish attempted to prove that Shermer was indeed an atheist and therefore immoral, even though Shermer said he was not an atheist and was willing to accept the existence of a divine creator. [16] Massimo Pigliucci, who debated Gish five times, said that Gish ignored evidence contrary to his religious beliefs. [17]
Philip Goff is a British author, idealist philosopher, and professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. [ 1] Specifically, it focuses on how consciousness can be part of the scientific worldview. Goff holds that materialism is incoherent and that dualism leads to "complexity, discontinuity and ...
According to Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan, "After the ‘Spandrels paper’, evolutionists were more careful about producing just-so stories based on selection, and paid more attention to a panoply of other processes." [1] In 2009, Rasmus Nielsen wrote that the paper "fundamentally changed the discourse of evolutionary biology". [16]
According to Massimo Pigliucci "Biological Emergences by Robert Reid is an interesting contribution to the ongoing debate on the status of evolutionary theory, but it is hard to separate the good stuff from the more dubious claims." Pigliucci noted a dubious claim in the book is that natural selection has no role in evolution.