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Massimo PigliucciMassimo Pigliucci, Ph.D., (born January 16, 1964) is a professor of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is known as an outspoken critic of creationism and advocate of science education. He received his doctorate in genetics at the University of Ferrara, Italy, a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Tennessee.[1] Additional recommended knowledgeHe received the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, and has been awarded three times the Oak Ridge National Laboratories Science Alliance Faculty Research Award. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. His research in science focuses on genotype-environment interactions, on natural selection, and on the constraints imposed on the latter by the genetic and developmental makeup of organisms. As a philosopher, he is interested in epistemological issues in the philosophy of science and in the conceptual examination of fundamental ideas underlying evolutionary theory. Pigliucci writes regularly for Skeptical Inquirer and Philosophy Now, and has occasionally debated creationists. On The Infidel Guy's internet radio show, he debated Kent Hovind (a creationist).[1][2] Pigliucci considers that many problems are caused by a failure on the part of scientists and science educators to appreciate the distinction between methodological and philosophical naturalism; and the distinction between matters of fact and value judgements, suggesting that whereas atheism is a perfectly respectable metaphysical position, science does not necessarily demand atheism[2] Books
ArticlesThe following are a few of his numerous articles. Some may be found at the Internet Infidels' Secular Web. Additional articles can be found on his web sites (listed below).
Notes & ReferencesCategories: Evolutionary biologists | Geneticists |
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