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Julien Musolino

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Julien Musolino
File:Julien Musolino.jpg Julien_Musolino.jpg
Born (1970-07-15) July 15, 1970 (age 53)
Lyon, France
🏳️ CitizenshipFrance, United States
🎓 Alma mater
💼 Occupation
Known forDevelopmental psycholinguistics, Book: The Soul Fallacy
🏅 AwardsDistinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, Rutgers 2018
🌐 Websitejulienmusolino.com

Julien Musolino (born July 15, 1970) is a Franco-American cognitive scientist, public speaker, and author. He is a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.[1]. His research explores different aspects of the human mind including language, logic, reason, memory, and religious thought [2] [3].

Musolino is the author of the 2015 popular science book The Soul Fallacy[4], he is an advocate of the public understanding of science[5], public engagement on the part of academics[6], and the use of skepticism and reason in public affairs[7]. He has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor[8] [9], he has been a guest on radio and podcast programs in the United States and abroad[10][11], his work has been discussed in popular magazines[12], and he has been a featured speaker at public events such as DragonCon[13], Imagine No Religion [14], and LogicalLA [15].

Education[edit]

Musolino was born in Lyon and grew up in the Haute Savoie region of France. Following high school at the Lycée de La Versoie in Thonon-les-bains, he attended the University of Geneva in neighboring Switzerland where he received his undergraduate degree. During that time, Musolino spent a year at the University of North Wales in Bangor on an Erasmus scholarship. In 1994, he moved to the United States to attend the University of Maryland where he received a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1998. Musolino spent the next three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Academic career[edit]

In 2001, he joined the faculty in the department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University. After receiving tenure at Indiana University, Musolino moved to his current faculty position at Rutgers University. There, he holds a dual appointment in the psychology department and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). He is also a member of the graduate faculty in the philosophy department.

The Soul Fallacy[edit]

The Soul Fallacy[16] is Musolino’s first popular science book. The book is a scientific exploration of the perennial question of the soul. Based on multiple sources of data (national polls, empirical investigations), as well as popular claims made by religious apologists[17], Musolino begins by showing that the kind of soul that most people believe in today has three main properties:

  • (a) Immaterial or non-physical
  • (b) Psychologically potent
  • (c) Immortal

The book then develops five main arguments:

  • (1) The soul is not just a religious or metaphysical claim. Above all, Musolino argues, it is a scientific claim
  • (2) Consequently, the existence of the soul can be determined objectively
  • (3) Modern science, according to Musolino, gives us every reason to believe that human beings do not have souls[18]
  • (4) This conclusion, in turn, has important implications that extend beyond the realm of science with consequences for broader societal issues (abortion, the right to die with dignity, criminal punishment)
  • (5) Musolino’s final argument is that we have nothing to lose by letting go of our soul beliefs. In fact, we even have something important to gain

The Soul Fallacy is an exploration of human nature that takes a stand for science and reason. It also serves as a rejoinder to recent books such as Dinesh D’Souza’s Life after Death: The evidence, Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven, and Mark Baker and Stewart Goetz’s The Soul Hypothesis.

The Soul Fallacy was well-received within scientific circles with endorsements from Steven Pinker[19], Richard Dawkins[20], Sean Carroll[21], Jerry Coyne[22], and Michael Shermer[21], among others. Since the publication of The Soul Fallacy, Musolino has given public lectures in the United States and abroad, and he has appeared on panel discussions and public debates on questions pertaining to science and religion[23]. Religiously inclined writers were less positive about The Soul Fallacy[24].

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Julien Musolino faculty profile". Rutgers Department of Psychology. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Julien Musolino". Researchgate. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Julien Musolino Faculty Profile". Rutgers Psychology Department. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Soul Fallacy by Julien Musolino". Amazon. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Curse of the Carl Sagan Effect" (PDF). Atheist Alliance America. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Julien Musolino, Sixty second sermon". YouTube. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "The Soul Fallacy". Amazon. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Julien Musolino speaks to Bill O'Reilly". YouTube. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "O'Reilly Draws Comparison Between Belief In Jesus, Man-Made Climate Change". Huffpost. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "Julien Musolino speaks with Josh Zepps". Point of Inquiry. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  11. ↑ "Julien Musolino speaks with Seth Andrews". The Thinking Atheist. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  12. ↑ "You don't have a soul". Salon. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  13. ↑ "DragonCon". DragonCon - Who to see. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "Imagine no religion 7". YouTube. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  15. ↑ "LogicalLA 2018 speakers". LogicalLA. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  16. ↑ "The Soul Fallacy". Amazon. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  17. ↑ "Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D'Souza". Amazon. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  18. ↑ "Physics and the Immortality of the Soul". Scientific American. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  19. ↑ "Praise for The Soul Fallacy". Julien Musolino's Personal Website. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  20. ↑ "New Book on The Nonexistence of the Soul". Richard Dawkins Foundation. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Praise for The Soul Fallacy". Julien Musolino's personal website. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  22. ↑ "New book on the nonexistence of the soul". Why Evolution is True. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  23. ↑ "Panel on the existence of the soul". YouTube. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  24. ↑ "The spirit level: Arguments about the soul are best served in conversation, not contest". Common Reader. Retrieved 12 May 2018.

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