Street Epistemology - Practice

[curiosne]

Hey curiousne, what interests you about street epistemology?

It seems to be a very approachable way to talk to people on their beliefs.

Also street epistemology promotes more critical thinking into their beliefs and makes them more introspective.

My opinion is that critical thinking is a teachable skill and throughout my life, with my interactions with people, many don't seem to have a good framework to work with to employ good critical thinking skills.

So by assessing a person's critical thinking skills first and (if their critical thinking skills need work) nudging them towards a more robust critical thinking framework to use (ie makes logical sense and is evidence based), i believe more rational conversations will follow...?

Not sure if this will work but I'll give it a go.

The problem is that there are many smart people out there who sometimes have cognitive dissonance. If they employed their critical thinking skills consistently in all areas of their life there wouldn't be cognitive dissonance. So street epistemology should hopefully flesh out these irrational beliefs (like belief in ghosts for example).

I think this to be a better approach than debating head on with people's beliefs.