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In this episode, Lisa speaks with a Founder and current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International (SEI). Street Epistemology is a practical and accessible method for humans who want to account for and overcome their biases and handicaps about reasoning in the way they view the world. Anthony shares the tenets of SE and resources for those who want to learn these crucial communication skills.
Anthony Magnabosco — Street Wisdom:
What happens when we turn the Street Epistemology lens on ourselves? [3:10]
Resources for learning the Street Epistemology process. [6:07]
What Anthony means by internal versus external humility. [8:51]
Popularity and likes on social media don’t equate with accuracy or credibility. [15:10]
How to protect ourselves from misinformation. [20:42]
About Lisa’s guests:
Anthony Magnabosco hails from San Antonio, Texas, and is a Founder and current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International (SEI). SEI is an educational organization committed to addressing dysfunction in public and private discourse by encouraging rationality through civil conversation. SEI provides people with the resources needed to develop, practice, and promote Street Epistemology. SE is a rebuttal approach proven to be effective in helping people reflect on the quality of their reasoning and update their confidence in their conclusions to more reasonable positions. The SE approach can be applied to a variety of claims including religion, ghosts, karma, law of attraction, and other social and political topics.
Anthony Bernard Magnabosco on Facebook
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