Peter Boghossian: How To Have Impossible Conversations

Watching America

Dr. Peter Boghossian was one of our first guests on Watching America. In spring 2019, he spoke with us about the Grievance Studies hoax, along with his academic cohorts: mathematician James Lindsay and author/researcher Helen Pluckrose. Listen to that episode: https://mediaplayer.whro.org/program/watchingamerica/e/watchingamerica-thursday-may-2nd-2019 Boghossian and Lindsay recently published the book, “How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide.” Boghossian says society will collapse if people don’t learn to communicate freely and truthfully. Host Dr. Alan Campbell speaks to him about the value of conversation, disagreement, and cognitive liberty. Boghossian is a philosophy professor at Portland State University. His fundamental objective is to teach people how to think through what often seem to be intractable problems. His primary research areas are critical thinking and moral reasoning. To learn more, visit http://peterboghossian.com On Twitter: @peterboghossian