institutions era books nationality main_interests birth_date image article_title name
portland state university contemporary philosophy '' a manual for creating atheists '' american atheism , critical thinking , socratic pedagogy c. 1966 peterboghossian.png peter boghossian
 peter boghossian
peter boghossian

peter gregory boghossian -lrb- born c. 1966 -rrb- is an american philosophy instructor , activist , author , speaker , and atheism advocate .
he is a full-time faculty member at portland state university .
his primary research areas are critical thinking , philosophy of education , and moral reasoning .
boghossian is a speaker for the center for inquiry , the richard dawkins foundation for reason and science , and the secular student alliance .
he has been nominated as a member of the global secular council .
his book , `` a manual for creating atheists '' , was published in 2013 .
in it , he describes what he dubs `` street epistemology '' , a set of techniques that atheists can use in personal conversations with religious believers to get them to think more critically with the eventual goal of religious disaffiliation .
the book has inspired the creation of independent `` street epistemology '' groups .
