K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy
City College of New York
Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. His research is concerned with philosophy of science, the relationship between science and philosophy and the nature of pseudoscience.
Pigliucci has published in national magazines such as Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, Philosophy Now, and The Philosopher's Magazine, among others. He has been awarded the prestigious Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was also elected as a Consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Pigliucci pens the "Rationally Speaking" blog (rationallyspeaking.org) and co-hosts the Rationally Speaking podcast.
He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee.