Massimo Pigliucci
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Apr
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For instance, go out for a walk or count until 20 or go to the bathroom, just anything that will create a detachment, a sudden detachment from the situation so that you can de-escalate basically.
And of course, there's nothing inherently stoic about any of those things specifically, any of those specific suggestions.
What is stoic about is the notion that I want to keep my presence of mind here.
The best chance I have to do well in this situation is to act rationally and not to panic.
Panic has never helped anybody.
And it's a great example of how you respond rationally and effectively to a situation that could very easily turn lethal.
It was a pleasure.
Thanks for having me again.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Thanks for having me.
I was in Knoxville, Tennessee, the buckle of the Bible belt, as they called it.
I had started my academic career at the University of Tennessee.
I was a biologist at the time, not a philosopher.
And I was being treated very well by the university there.
But at the same time, there were a couple of things that were problematic.
Number one, the local culture was difficult for me to live in.
I was a professor of evolutionary biology.
My students, some of them actually told me that I was probably going to go to hell.
So it's like, you know, that's challenging.
But the more important bit was that I had a daughter from a previous relationship, and she was living on the East Coast in Connecticut.
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