Philosopher Peter Boghossian
An Interview with Philosopher Peter Boghossian
This inaugural podcast from The Malcontent’s Gambit discusses the inadequacy of faith and strategies toward living in world without faith with Philosopher Peter Boghossian, who lives in Oregon and teaches at Portland State University. Boghossian has been called the Richard Dawkins of Portland. If we relieve people of their faith, and convince people to be truly honest and humble about what they know, religion will fall, says Boghossian. This is a frank and honest discussion with a bold, outspoken philosopher.
Excellent! Great chemistry. Honest conversation. Very informative and educational. Thank you! (He’s my new favorite philosopher!!)
Great interview!
Minor point: did you have your own mic, Alan? It sounded like your voice was being picked from Peter’s microphone.
Wes. Yep, single mic. I need to pick up another one, and a pop filter.
another great podcast interview with Peter Boghossian
http://www.philosophynews.com/post/2011/12/05/Interview-with-Peter-Boghossian.aspx
Great podcast! I have always felt that the religious (what I call them) seem to value faith over fact. Quite annoying.
Great show Alan! I like the pacing / speed and the sound effects. I hope you are able to create a feed so that podcast programs can pull it in and download automatically (doggcatch, iTunes, google listen, etc).
Thanks Kurt. I’m working on creating a feed – I’ll announce it when it’s ready. Thanks for listening.
thank you for making this available — excellent questions — good problems and thoughtfulness — you and dr boghossian are bringing philosophy to the city — & the city needs philosophy.
“Epicurus said, “Through the passionate love of philosophy, every bad human suffering is undone.” This is no doubt excessively optimistic. But as a guiding ideal and “political motivation” for teaching, it is not so bad.” M. Nussbaum
Nice job! And in case you’re still taking technical notes, mp3 played flawlessly on my iPad
Thanks, Steve. Yes, I’m still taking tech notes. I’m relieved it’s working out ok. I appreciate you letting me know, and I’m grateful for your listenership.
How do I get information about Peter’s May 6th lecture? I would love to go to it.
Keith: Here’s that info –
Rationality & Irrationality
a Public Lecture by Peter Boghossian
Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University
Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 10:00am
Friendly House Community Center on the southwest corner of
NW 26th and Thurman in Northwest, Portland, OR
I am tweetcasting the talk live at @MalcontentsGamb
The response to this podcast was overwhelming. The server could not handle the requests, but the problem has been fixed now. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
Nevermind it just took a few minutes to start up for some reason. I’m listening now, thanks.
Plutarco,
Thanks for listening. It’s my first podcast, so any constructive input would be greatly appreciated!
Alan
Waaay to long to load on my windows machine. & when I pause and restart it hangs up and I have to start all over again.
& if you try to advance the bar back where you were it stops and need to reload. Bah!
I’m real sorry about that, Plutarco. It looks as if I have some troubleshooting to do. I was able to download the .mov file and play that much easier. I’ll look into a different player. Again, sorry. Thanks for letting me know.
I seriously appreciate the effort to make this content available online to us for free. I agree with Plutarco; we just need the audio file so we can listen to it anywhere, like on our mobile devices in the car.
Thanks!
Thanks, Jason. I’m working to fix the problem right now. Sorry!
Jason, fixed the problem. The toolbar is more responsive, and you should be able to download the mp3.
Thanks! I was hoping you would do that, but didn’t have much faith.
There should be more listening formats available. The image is of secondary importance, just an audio file would be nice.
Plutarco – I fixed the problem. The toolbar is more responsive, and you should be able to download the mp3.