A Humanitarian Option for Changing Minds

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Rice University

Friday, June 7, 2019
1:00pm-1:30pm

We generally try to change people’s views because we see the benefits of aligning our beliefs with reality and it hurts to see the people we love being taken advantage of. But what is the most effective and efficient way to do that when you value the relationship and want to help them, particularly when they hold a deeply-held belief is closely-tied to their core identity? While ridicule, facts, and debate have their place, a respectful conversational method gaining popularity called Street Epistemology may very well be the humanitarian solution you’ve been looking for.

Anthony Magnabosco

Anthony is a Humanist, skeptic, and agnostic atheist who lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife and two teenage children. He has been working to have more respectful and productive conversations with people—regardless of their stance on any claim—for more than six years, often filming the results and sharing on his YouTube channel, which has almost 30,000 subscribers. Anthony has given dozens of talks and workshops on the subject to a variety of groups, clubs, conferences, and events across the United States and internationally, and is widely considered to be one of most experienced practitioners of Street Epistemology in the world today. In addition, Anthony has appeared on The David Pakman Show, The Thinking Atheist podcast, The Atheist Experience, and Bart Campolo’s Humanize Me podcast. Anthony is active and accessible on social media, where he works hard to encourage others who are interested in having more productive chats with the people we may disagree with.

Email: anthony.magnabosco@gmail.com
Twitter: @magnabosco
YouTube: youtube.com/magnabosco210
Facebook: facebook.com/magnabosco210