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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 Salon. [4]
Julia Galef (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ l ə f /; born July 4, 1983) is an American writer, speaker and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality. [2] She hosts Rationally Speaking, the official podcast of New York City Skeptics, which she has done since its inception in 2010, sharing the show with co-host and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci and produced by Benny Pollak until 2015.
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 ...
288. ISBN. 0-374-28879-8. What Darwin Got Wrong is a 2010 book by philosopher Jerry Fodor and cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in which the authors criticize Charles Darwin 's theory of natural selection. It is an extension of an argument first presented as "Why Pigs Don't Have Wings" in the London Review of Books.
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 ...
Virtue epistemology is a current philosophical approach to epistemology that stresses the importance of intellectual and specifically epistemic virtues. Virtue epistemology evaluates knowledge according to the properties of the persons who hold beliefs in addition to or instead of the properties of the propositions and beliefs.
Aeon is a digital magazine of ideas, philosophy and culture. Publishing new articles every weekday, Aeon describes itself as a publication which "asks the biggest questions and finds the freshest, most original answers, provided by world-leading authorities on science, philosophy and society." [ 1] The magazine is published by Aeon Media Group ...
This list contains the top 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform Twitter, officially known as X. Notable figures such as Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Narendra Modi are at the top of the list, each with over 100 million followers.