Figs in Winter: a Community of Reason
Massimo Pigliucci, Donald J. RobertsonBy Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Understanding how the world works, thinking more clearly, living more meaningfully.
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Professor of philosophy at the City College of New York. Author of How to Be a Stoic, Nonsense on Stilts, and Beyond Stoicism.
I am a cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, and write books such as "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor", the Stoicism graphic novel, "Verissimus" and "How to Think Like Socrates". Founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens.
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