Massimo Pigliucci

Courses Taught

• Hume's Philosophy of Science, Then and Now (Spring 2014)
• Philosophy of Science or Science Studies? (Fall 2012)
• Science vs. Pseudoscience (Fall 2010)

Representative Publications

• Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
• Evolution – the Extended Synthesis. Co-Edited with Gerd Muller, MIT Press, 2010.
• Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• Denying Evolution: Creation, Scientism, and the Nature of Science, Sinauer, 2002.
• Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
• "Genotype–phenotype mapping and the end of the ‘genes as blueprint’ metaphor." Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. B (2010) 365: 557–566.
• "Samir Okasha: Evolution and the levels of selection." Biology and Philosophy (2009) 24:551–560.
• "An Extended Synthesis for Evolutionary Biology." Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (2009) 1168: 218–228.
• "What, if Anything, Is an Evolutionary Novelty?" Philosophy of Science(2008) 75:887–898.
• "The Proper Role of Population Genetics in Modern Evolutionary Theory." Biological Theory (2008) 3:316–324.
• "The Borderlands Between Science and Philosophy: An Introduction." Quarterly Review of Biology (2008) 83:7-15.
• "Sewall Wright’s adaptive landscapes: 1932 vs. 1988." Biology and Philosophy (2008) 23:591–603.
• "Is evolvability evolvable?" Nature Genetics (2008) 9:75-82.