Peter Boghossian
Peter's Articles
November 8, 2022
How woke language distorts the world
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May 11, 2021
Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole
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March 24, 2021
Criticism of Ideas Is Not Harassment
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June 16, 2020
What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it
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February 25, 2020
The Illiberalism of Social Justice
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February 25, 2020
How to Navigate Contentious Conversations
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December 5, 2019
Deluded Departments
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November 26, 2019
How to converse with know-it-alls
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November 24, 2019
‘Idea Laundering’ in Academia
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November 22, 2019
Let People Be Wrong
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November 8, 2019
Welcome to Culture War 2.0: The Great Realignment
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October 11, 2019
Social-Justice Warriors Won’t Listen, but You Should
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September 20, 2019
Conversing in an Age of Accusation
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September 18, 2019
You Can Disagree Better
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July 19, 2019
Op-Ed: The best way to evaluate your beliefs? Engage with people who disagree with you
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June 28, 2019
A Thought Experiment: Joe Biden and Segregation
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November 25, 2018
What comes after postmodernism?
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October 10, 2018
From dog rape to white men in chains: We fooled the biased academic left with fake studies
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October 8, 2018
Dog rape and Mein Kampf as a feminist text: why we hoaxed journals with terrible papers
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October 2, 2018
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
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June 26, 2017
The Socratic method, defeasibility, and doxastic responsibility
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June 13, 2017
Cogent Criticisms: A Point-by-Point Reply to Criticisms of the “Conceptual Penis” Hoax
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May 11, 2017
The conceptual penis as a social construct
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April 19, 2017
What Would it Take to Change Your Mind?
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April 3, 2017
Is the Unthinkable the New Acceptable?
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January 1, 2017
Critical Thinking, Pedagogy, and Jiu Jitsu: Wedding Physical Resistance to Critical Thinking
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December 19, 2016
We Must Trust Science or Die Like E.T.
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September 16, 2016
How to Fight Extremism with Atheism
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August 17, 2016
The Looming Extinction of Humankind, Explained
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August 6, 2016
It’s Not Alarmist: Trump and the Republican Party Could Destroy the World
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June 5, 2016
The Article About Trump Nobody Will Publish
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May 29, 2016
Want to Be Good at Philosophy? Study Maths and Science
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May 24, 2016
Is “privilege” like Original Sin?
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May 20, 2016
The Storm at Yale: Frustration, Rage and Opportunity
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January 3, 2016
Philosophy that matters
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December 15, 2015
The Appeal of ISIS: Islamism, Trust, and Costly Signaling
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May 8, 2015
Physicists Are Philosophers, Too
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January 29, 2014
Creationism, Faith, and Legitimizing Bad Ideas
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January 9, 2013
Socratic Pedagogy: Perplexity, humiliation, shame and a broken egg
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October 3, 2012
Faith no more
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September 27, 2012
Indignation Is Not Righteous
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September 13, 2012
How to… CALL BULLSHIT
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June 1, 2012
Prisons, Community Partnerships, and Academia: Sustainable Programs and Community Needs
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June 1, 2012
Prisons, Community Partnerships, and Academia
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December 7, 2011
Critical Thinking and Constructivism: Mambo Dog Fish to the Banana Patch
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July 19, 2011
Should We Challenge Student Beliefs?
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January 30, 2010
Socratic Pedagogy, Critical Thinking, and Offender Programming
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December 3, 2006
Behaviorism, Constructivism, and Socratic Pedagogy
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March 1, 2006
Socratic Pedagogy, Critical Thinking, and Inmate Education
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January 3, 2003
How Socratic Pedagogy Works
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December 1, 2002
The Socratic Method (or, Having a Right to Get Stoned)
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November 30, 2002
How to Make an Argument
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January 3, 2002
Socratic Pedagogy, Race and Power
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January 1, 1995
Wittgenstein and Peirce on Meaning: The Evolution from Absolutism to Fallibilism
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