Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
Diversity initiatives in higher education, with the intent to foster harmony and understanding of others, seemed to have undermined some of the primary goals of higher education: leading students to critically self-reflect and hold justified true beliefs. Some diversity initiatives have reinforced the very harmful idea that disagreement is disrespectful and have also assented to […]
Boghossian has recently appeared on an episode of The Malcontent’s Gambit podcast discussing faith. Here is the description from the respective website: This inaugural podcast from The Malcontent’s Gambit discusses the inadequacy of faith and strategies toward living in world without faith with Philosopher Peter Boghossian, who lives in Oregon and teaches at Portland State […]
Have diversity and inter-faith programs — whose goals are to increase understanding of the differences (and similarities) between people of different backgrounds, traditions, and perspectives — actually decreased understanding in many unfortunate and damaging ways? Diversity and inter-faith programs, from my experience, haven’t been concerned with the validity of certain perspectives/ideas (or even debating the […]
Philosopher Peter Boghossian will be appearing on an episode of the NEPA Freethought Society Podcast that will be recorded on May 5 and released on a future date. Boghossian will be discussing practical strategies that listeners can use to combat faith and promote reason and rationality. He will be specifically addressing effective strategies to challenge […]
(A fitting poster for this post…) It’s often the case that people are quick to respond to content or people they happen to disagree with with a ‘sit down and shut up’ mentality in which they believe that certain ideas just shouldn’t be discussed. Is this an appropriate attitude to have? In a pluralistic society, […]