Rationally Speaking by Massimo Pigliucci

Rationally Speaking

Rationally Speaking has been a monthly guest column on skepticism, humanism, science and pseudoscience, with occasional forays into politics written by Massimo Pigliucci.

Massimo now publishes in a Google group (Rationally Speaking) and new columns will no longer appear in this section. The Rationally Speaking group contains current essays and lectures by Massimo and is always worth looking at. It was updated 5 May 2008.

The archive of his past columns will be maintained here, and issues raised in those articles remain open to discussion, either through Talkback or Debate and Discourse. Use the Article Submission Form on the Contact page.

Publication here does not mean we necessarily support all of Massimo's published views, nor that he supports ours. But, agree or disagree, he raises important and interesting issues.

Massimo Pigliucci Archive

The Rationalistic Fallacy: August 2000
The Place of Science: September 2000
Whence Natural Rights? - A Dialogue: October 2000
Intelligent Design - the Classical Argument: November 2000
Intelligent Design - the Modern Argument: December 2000
Split-brains, Paradigm Shifts and Why it is So Difficult to be a Skeptic: January 2001
The Greatest Democracy in the World and the Unfairness of American Elections: February 2001
Game Theory, Rational Egoism and the Evolution of Fairness: March 2001
Red or Blue? What kind of life would you choose? - April 2001
The Many Faces of Anti-intellectualism: May 2001
God on the Highway: June 2001
The Wedge: what happens when science is taken over by ideology? July 2001
Frankenfoods vs. the neo-Luddites: August 2001
The Dark Side of Philosophy: September 2001
Of Terror and Insanity: September 15 2001
Heart Disease and the myth of individual responsibility: October 2001
Beer and circus in American education: Pars destruens: Part I - November 2001
Beer and circus in American education: Pars destruens: Part II - November 2001
The Great Unicorn Debate: December 2001
Mr. Bayes and the true nature of scientific hypotheses - January 2002
Is philosophy useless?- February 2002
Darwin who? - March 2002
Those who understand Bin Laden - April 2002
The meaning of life (sort of...) - May 2002
Ecology vs. Ecophily - June 2002
Economic vs Social Health - July 2002
Is God in your brain? - August 2002
Why bother? Why being liberal is not a lost cause - September 2002
On Intuition - October 2002
Is the US the ultimate rogue nation? - November 2002
What do you mean,'rationally' speaking? - December 2002

Human instincts and virtue ethics - January 2003
Gays, in the military and outside of it - February 2003
America, Europe, and the rest of the world - March 2003
Whence animal rights? - April 2003
On "being proud of" - May 2003
Post War - May 2003
It's the fundamentalism, stupid! - June 2003
Why skeptic doesn't mean cynic - July 2003
Are we afraid of the wrong things? - August 2003
Are you a bright? - September 2003
Bush, the Pope, and gay rights - October 2003
Edward Teller, Dr. Strangelove - November 2003
Israel, anti-semitism, and world peace - December 2003
On tolerance vs. respect - January 2004
What's wrong with the Palestinians? - February 2004
Open letter to Colin Powell - March 2004
Intellectual midwifery - April 2004
Liberal vs. illiberal democracy - May 2004
Soldiers' morality - June 2004
The neurobiology of regret - July 2004
Changing our mind: a Bayesian approach - August 2004
Monty Python's guide to philosophy - September 2004
Abortion, a philosophical approach - October 2004
I, Robot - November 2004
Dude, this is your country! - December 2004
Nonsense on stilts, an example - January 2005
God did it, or did He? - February 2005
And they say liberals are whiny! - March 2005
Useless feats - April 2005
Habemus Papa! - May 2005
On Holy books - June 2005
OK, I changed my mind (three times!) - July 2005

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