A critique of “Why Critical Thinking is Dead – Peter Boghossian”
This is a review of: Why Critical Thinking is Dead – Peter Boghossian The description from the original video is: Peter Boghossian is an American philosopher. For ten years he was a professor of philosophy at Portland State University, but resigned following the college’s response to ‘the grievance studies affair’. This entailed Boghossian – alongside James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose – submitting bogus papers to peer-reviewed publications related to gender studies and other similar disciplines, in order to satirise the poor academic quality of such fields. More recently Boghossian has been engaging in what he calls, ‘street epistemology’ where he encourages people in public places to examine their opinions, why they hold them, and what it would take for them to change their minds. Check out his channel here: Speakers:Konstantin Kisin = [KK]Francis Foster = [FF]Peter Boghossian = [PB] Legend:🖖 :vulcan_salute: for agreement,👎 :thumbsdown: for disagreement,✋ :raised_hand: for corrections and clarifications👌 :ok_hand: Sarcasm or misrepresentation☝️ :point_up: Over simplification, Logic Fail🤏 :pinching_hand: Grain of truth, close but incorrect.🧘 :lotus_position: neoBuddhist belief👀 :eyes:💬 :speech_balloon:🗨️ :left_speech_bubble:💭 :thought_balloon: neoBuddhist Opinion Introduction 0:00 so passive failure we fail to teach kids critical thinking correct active failure is when you teach them stuff that is0:07 actually wrong and makes things worse well that’s the situation we’re in now so if you indoctrinate the teachers you0:12 don’t need to indoctrinate the kids cuz the teachers will take care of for you when you don’t learn the other side of the issue you have an artificial0:19 confidence in