Dr.
Pigliucci is Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution
at SUNY-Stony Brook (Long Island, NY). His research is on the evolution
of genotype-environment interactions and on the role of constraints
in evolutionary biology. He also has an interest in epistemology
and philosophy of science.
He received his Doctorate in Genetics at the University of Ferrara
in Italy, his PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut, and
a PhD in Philosophy of Science at the University of Tennessee. He
has published 68 technical papers and three books on evolutionary
biology: Phenotypic Evolution: a Reaction Norm Perspective (with
Carl Schlichting, Sinauer, 1998); Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond
Nature and Nurture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001); and Phenotypic
Integration: the Evolution of Complex Phenotypes (co-edited with
Katherine Preston for Oxford University Press, 2004). He has also
published two books for the general public: Tales of the Rational:
Skeptical Essays about Nature and Science (Freethought Press, 2000),
and Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature
of Science (Sinauer, 2002). His forthcoming book (with philosopher Jonathan
Kaplan) is Making Sense of Evolution: Toward a Coherent Picture
of Evolutionary Theory (Chicago Press).
Dr. Pigliucci has won the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the
Study of Evolution. In 2004 he has been elected fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science “for fundamental
studies of genotype by environmental interactions and for public
defense of evolutionary biology from pseudoscientific attack.” He
is also an editor for the Quarterly Review of Biology and for
Biology & Philosophy.
