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Monday, May 18, 2020

Stoicism as a philosophy for an ordinary life | Massimo Pigliucci | TEDx...

 


Stoicism as a philosophy for an ordinary life 




How to change your life for the better by practicing ancient Greco-Roman philosophy as a way of life. 


Massimo 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 the City College of New York. 


His research interests include the philosophy of biology, the science philosophy relationship, pseudoscience and the philosophy of Stoicism.


Having published in national and international outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, he is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Contributing Editor to Skeptical Inquirer. 


He owns two blogs: Plato’s Footnote on general philosophy and How to Be a Stoic on his personal exploration of Stoicism as practical philosophy.




Pigliucci has also published 153 technical papers in science and philosophy, while he is the author or editor of 13 books, most recently of the best selling 


How to Be A Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life.  



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