Bøger af Massimo Pigliucci

Stoicism teaches us to acknowledge our emotions, reflect on what causes them and redirect them for our own good. The author shows how stoicism teaches us the importance of a person's character, integrity and compassion. With tips and exercises, meditations and mindfulness, he also explains how relevant it is to every part of our modern lives.

The answers to our daily worries and anxieties - big or small - lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez have created a unique, personalised Stoic curriculum for a lifetime of practice, showing how relevant this ancient philosophy is to modern life.

a Stoicism 2.0 for twenty-first century happiness' Skye Cleary 'A bold, contemporary updating of Stoicism for the present day' John Sellars, author of Lessons in StoicismLearn how to survive life's hardships and enjoy its pleasures with the modern stoic mindset.

A biologist-turned-philosopher shows how scientific discoveries can help resolve some of philosophy's longest-debated issues

In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that focuses our attention on what is possible and gives us perspective on what is unimportant. By understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer crucial questions: Should we get married or divorced? How should we handle our money in a world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever we are, Stoicism has something for us--and How to Be a Stoic is the essential guide.

Polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, despite it being one of science's best-established findings. This book sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in this exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe science.

An insightful and practical guide to living a happier life through lessons from nine key ancient philosophers

No sabemos qué te ha llevado a sentir curiosidad por este libro. Tal vez estés pasando por una etapa con un alto nivel de estrés. Quizás sufres una gran saturación de trabajo. O estás empezando a com - prender las responsabilidades que conlleva tener un hijo. O pue - de que estés viviendo una tormenta emocional como consecuencia de una nueva relación fallida. Sea lo que sea, seguro que puedes encontrar las palabras justas dentro de la sabiduría estoica. El estoicismo es una filosofía práctica cuyo mensaje esencial es: no podemos con - trolar lo que nos pasa, pero sí cómo respondemos a ello. Cuando nos hacemos pre - guntas tan corrientes como '¿Qué puedo hacer para controlar mi rabia?', '¿Qué debo hacer si alguien me insulta?', '¿Qué puedo hacer para no sentir temor ante la muerte?', o incluso '¿Cómo debería gestionar los éxitos que obtengo?' lo que en realidad nos estamos preguntando es de qué forma deberíamos vivir nuestra vida para ser más felices. Y no parece una cuestión sencilla de responder... En Cómo ser un estoico, el filósofo Massimo Pigliucci ofrece el estoicismo, la antigua filosofía que inspiró al gran emperador Marco Aurelio, como el mejor camino para conseguirlo. Mediante una conversación entre el mismo Pigliucci y Epicteto, el antiguo esclavo convertido en maestro, y un sinfín de consejos, ejercicios prácti - cos y propuestas de meditación, este libro se convierte en la guía esencial para vivir la vida según las pautas del estoicismo y encontrar las soluciones que esta filosofía práctica puede aportar a nuestros problemas modernos

A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life. A VINTAGE ORIGINALSocrates famously said "the unexamined life is not worth living," but what does it mean to truly live philosophically?This thought-provoking, wide-ranging collection brings together essays by fifteen leading philosophers reflecting on what it means to live according to a philosophy of life. From Eastern philosophies (Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism) and classical Western philosophies (such as Aristotelianism and Stoicism), to the four major religions, as well as contemporary philosophies (such as existentialism and effective altruism), each contributor offers a lively, personal account of how they find meaning in the practice of their chosen philosophical tradition.Together, the pieces in How to Live a Good Life provide not only a beginner's guide to choosing a life philosophy but also a timely portrait of what it means to live an examined life in the twenty-first century.

Prominent evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey recent work that expands the core theoretical framework underlying the biological sciences.In the six decades since the publication of Julian Huxley's Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, the spectacular empirical advances in the biological sciences have been accompanied by equally significant developments within the core theoretical framework of the discipline. As a result, evolutionary theory today includes concepts and even entire new fields that were not part of the foundational structure of the Modern Synthesis. In this volume, sixteen leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitative genetics and paleontology but also in such new fields of research as genomics and EvoDevo.Most of the contributors to Evolution, the Extended Synthesis accept many of the tenets of the classical framework but want to relax some of its assumptions and introduce significant conceptual augmentations of the basic Modern Synthesis structure—just as the architects of the Modern Synthesis themselves expanded and modulated previous versions of Darwinism. This continuing revision of a theoretical edifice the foundations of which were laid in the middle of the nineteenth century—the reexamination of old ideas, proposals of new ones, and the synthesis of the most suitable—shows us how science works, and how scientists have painstakingly built a solid set of explanations for what Darwin called the "grandeur” of life.ContributorsJohn Beatty, Werner Callebaut, Jeremy Draghi, Chrisantha Fernando, Sergey Gavrilets, John C. Gerhart, Eva Jablonka, David Jablonski, Marc W. Kirschner, Marion J. Lamb, Alan C. Love, Gerd B. Müller, Stuart A. Newman, John Odling-Smee, Massimo Pigliucci, Michael Purugganan, Eörs Szathmáry, Günter P. Wagner, David Sloan Wilson, Gregory A. Wray

Denying Evolution aims at taking a fresh look at the evolution-creation controversy, dividing the blame equally between creationists and scientists: the former for subscribing to various forms of anti-intellectualism, the latter for discounting science education and presenting science as scientism to the public and the media.