Books

21. How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic: Cicero’s Case for Doubt in an Age of Certainty (Penguin, 2026, forthcoming).

20. Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers (The Experiment, 2025).

19. Books that Matter: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. (The Teaching Company, 2025).

18. The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders (Basic Books, 2022).

17. Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World (The Teaching Company, 2021).

16. A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living (Basic Books, 2020).

15. How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy of Life, ed. by Massimo Pigliucci, Skye Cleary & Daniel Kaufman (Vintage, 2020).

14. A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control, by Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez (The Experiment, 2019).

13. How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (second edition, Basic Books, 2017).

12. Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (second edition, University of Chicago Press, 2018; first edition 2010).

11. Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism (co-edited with Maarten Boudry, University of Chicago Press, 2018).

10. Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (co-edited with Maarten Boudry, University of Chicago Press, 2013).

9. Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life (Basic Books, 2012).

8. Evolution – the Extended Synthesis (co-edited with Gerd B. Müller, MIT Press, 2010).

7. Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology (with Jonathan Kaplan, University of Chicago Press, 2006).

6. Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes (co-edited with Katherine Preston, Oxford University Press, 2004).

5. Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science (Oxford University Press, 2002).

4. Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

3. Phenotypic Evolution: A Reaction Norm Perspective (with Carl D. Schlichting, Sinauer, 1998).

2. La Via delle Stelle (The Road to the Stars, with Franco Foresta Martin, Mursia, 1987).

1. Il Romanzo della Vita (The Romance of Life, Mondadori, 1986).

Featured book: Books That Matter-Meditations (Teaching Company). A 12-lecture video and audio course on one of the most influential Stoic books of all time.

Featured essay: The varieties of bad Stoicism. Stoicism is very popular these days. Perhaps a bit too much.

Featured technical paper: Nature vs nurture: time to let it go, co-written with Jonathan Kaplan, explains why it’s time to get over the classic dichotomy and get serious about the study of human nature.