E48. Peter Boghossian Wants to Teach People How to Have Impossible Conversations

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🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Bridget and Peter Boghossian have a conversation under the Colorado stars about the search for ultimate meaning in life, the denigration of reason, the loss of being able to wonder publicly, figuring out the best type of life to lead, and teaching people how to value the right things. Peter explains how bales of hay, lifting weights, and prison inmates got him started on his career path and led him to question whether you can fundamentally change the way people think about problems and the way they view morality. They cover street epistemology, the truth about “pecking orders,” the difference between rationalizing and reasoning, and the glorification of violence in our society. His book, How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide, co-written with James Lindsay, is a distillation of decades of study and offers the best ways to approach and have conversations with people who have different opinions and foster a climate of civility. Full transcript available here: WiW-PeterBoghossian-Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
0:02.4	Now available on Apple Podcasts.
0:04.1	Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:34.4	We have Peter Bagojan on this week.
0:37.0	I had the luxury of spending time with all of the folks from the grievance studies recently and Peter was there
0:45.4	giving a speech with the rest of the crew and we were having a long talk under
0:50.6	the stars and then decided that we would turn it into our
0:53.2	podcast so if we sound like we're high at the beginning of this it's just because
0:58.2	we were contemplating our tinieness in the face of the vastness of a Colorado sky.
1:05.5	Peter's a full-time faculty member
1:07.6	in the Department of Philosophy
1:09.1	at Portland State University
1:11.1	and the co-author of how to have impossible conversations.
1:15.0	We're recording, so get excited.
1:19.0	It was actually my seventh grade campaign, well I ran for some office in school in seventh grade.
1:29.6	And they, I'm with Peter Bagozian everyone.
1:32.3	No, it was a vote for Bagozian everyone.
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