Massimo Pigliucci

K D Irani Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York

Massimo Pigliucci is the K D Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His books include How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books, 2017) and 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). More by him at https://massimopigliucci.org.

Written by Massimo Pigliucci

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KNOWLEDGE AND REASON

These lessons in scepticism could make the world a better place

In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics

by Massimo Pigliucci

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THINKERS AND THEORIES

Musonius Rufus: Roman Stoic, and avant-garde feminist?

For Musonius Rufus, the Stoic feminist, enduring things as they are is no obstacle to striving for things as they should be

by Massimo Pigliucci