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Prof. Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He currently is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at t��ɫ��Ƶ. His research interests include the philosophy of science, the nature of pseudoscience, and practical philosophies like Stoicism and New Skepticism.

Prof. Pigliucci has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “for fundamental studies of genotype by environmental interactions and for public defense of evolutionary biology from pseudo-scientific attack.” 

In the area of public outreach, Prof. Pigliucci has published in national and international outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Contributing Editor to Skeptical Inquirer. He writes on practical and general philosophy on Substack. 

At last count, Prof. Pigliucci has published 194 technical papers in science and philosophy. He is also the author or editor of 23 books, including the best selling How to Be A Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books). Other titles include Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press), and the forthcoming How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic: Cicero’s Case for Doubt in an Age of Certainty (Penguin).

Recent Books

• How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic: Cicero’s Case for Doubt in an Age of Certainty (Penguin, forthcoming).
• Books that Matter: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. (The Teaching Company, 2025).
• Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers (with Gregory Lopez and Meredith Kunz, The Experiment, 2025).
• The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders (Basic Books, 2022).
• Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World (The Teaching Company, 2021).

Recent Publications

• Pigliucci, M. and Kaplan, J. 2025. Nature vs nurture: time to let it go. In: Beyond Nature and Nurture: Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality, ed. by Javier Pérez and Jara Íñigo Onga, Springer-Synthese.
• Pigliucci, M. 2024. The problem of pseudoscience: Who should we trust when it comes to fringe beliefs? In: Expertise–Philosophical Perspectives, ed. by Mirko Farina, Andrea Lavazza, and Duncan Pritchard, Oxford University Press, pp. 13-30.
• Yuan, W., M. Pigliucci, and C. Richards. 2024. Rapid phenotypic differentiation in the iconic Japanese knotweed s.l. invading novel habitats. Scientific Reports 14:14640.
• Pigliucci, M. 2024. The moral psychology of anxiety. A Stoic perspective. In: The Moral Psychology of Anxiety, ed. by D. Rondel and S. Chopra, Lexington Books, pp. 13-28.
• Pigliucci, M. 2024. Star Trek as philosophy: Spock as Stoic sage. In: Johnson D. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Pigliucci, M. 2023. The quest for character: five insight. Philosophical Practice, 18(2):3098-3104.
• Pigliucci, M. 2023. Neoskepticism and moral education. In: ed. by D.W. Yacek, M.E. Jonas, and K.H. Gary, Moral Education in the 21st century, Cambridge University Press, pp. 49-68.
• Pigliucci, M. 2023. Pseudoscience and the demarcation problem. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (peer reviewed), January.
• Pigliucci, M. 2022. Public reasoning about the good life. In: A Companion to Public Philosophy, ed. by Lee McIntyre, Nancy McHugh, and Ian Olasov, Wiley Blackwell, chapter 11.
• Pigliucci, M. 2022. Scientism and liberal naturalism. In: Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism, ed. by M. De Caro and D. Macarthur, Routledge, chapter 31.