Peter Boghossian
American philosopher and author
Peter Boghossian is an American philosopher who taught at Portland State University. He co-wrote How to Have Impossible Conversations with James A. Lindsay.
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American Born 1966 in Boston, United States
About Peter Boghossian
Peter Boghossian was born in 1966 and spent ten years as a philosophy professor at Portland State University. His academic work has focused on atheism, critical thinking, teaching methods, scientific skepticism and the Socratic method. He coined the term street epistemology, which describes conversational techniques for examining strongly held beliefs, especially religious ones, without confrontation. He wrote A Manual for Creating Atheists, and with James A. Lindsay he wrote How to Have Impossible Conversations.