street epistemology

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Paul Boghossian is absolute garbage.

Doesn't know anything about epistemology, doesn't know anything about religion.

I'm embarrassed for him and the mindless drones he has managed to convince that he's doing something meaningful.

The atheist Deepak Chopra.

I actually had a slight objection to his use of "epistemology", although I understood that he was trying to present a parallel with the xtian terminology.  Actually, epistemology is the defined as the study, or understanding of knowledge, and it has been hijacked by xtians who think that their fairy tales are knowledge.   Boghossian's book, though, was actually a lot more about debating techniques, how to identify and zero in on logical fallacies.  While I appreciated the study of debate tactics, I could not see myself using them in real life.

I'm sure any xtian would think Boghossian was garbage.  After all, his take on "faith" is spot on: 

Wow. There's a lot you don't understand.

He isn't trying to parallel xtian terminology. Epistemology has not been hijacked by xtians (far from it most epistemologists are atheists).

And fundamentally, his definition of faith is false and doesn't correspond to what Christians define as faith. 

His "street epistemology" would fail with any moderately informed theist.

He's been called out on it, and a discussion between him and a theist resulted in him being absolutely destroyed. The guy doesn't even have a PhD in philosophy, but a degree in education or something of the sort.

For this reason, I think smart atheists (who are informed about things like religion and epistemology) don't look to him for guidance.