Oh, Welcome to Within Reason. My name is Alex O'Connor. My guest today is Peter

Beggosian, who is the founding faculty fellow, a founding faculty fellow at the University of Austin,

former professor at Portland State. A place we shall not name, good enough.

Which we won't go into. And also I believe you coined the term street epistemology.

Correct. 2013. So I have spoken before to Anthony Magnibosko, who is a wonderful street epistemologist.

And we actually try to do some street epistemology together at the time after when I was in Austin, we to the university campus and he said well let's get out in the street and let's get you doing some

Oh some street epistemology but because it was the summertime

It was too hot it was it was allergy season when I showed up today you know I was sort of

sniffling a little place because the weather at the moment I just sort of have a

horrific form of hay fever so I'm either allergic to grass or apparently allergic to

street epistemology I don't know which it is. Well Austin's an oven in the

summer I wouldn't try to do anything other than eat barbecue there it's a

truly horrific in the summer.

It was quite an experience, but it's interesting now to sit down with a man who've coined the term.

People who are listening who might not know what street epistemology is, can you give them the sort of the blurb definition?

So, thanks for asking.

Street epistemology is a way, and we're actually in the room with the president of street

epistemology read nice wonder where we go all around the world and we make videos

so street epistemology is street epistemology.

Epistemology means how you know what you think you know.

So it's taking epistemology from a formal academic setting

and bring it into the street, hence the street

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