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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stephen Jay Gould (/ ɡ uː l d /; 1941 – 2002) was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. [4]He was known by the general public mainly for his 300 popular essays in Natural History magazine, [5] As in The Mismeasure of Man, Gould criticized biological theories of human behavior in "Against Sociobiology" (1975) [6] and "The Spandrels of San ...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe ( SGU) is an American weekly skeptical podcast hosted by Steven Novella, MD, along with a panel of contributors. The official podcast of the New England Skeptical Society, it was named to evoke The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The show features discussions of recent scientific developments in layman's ...