Yvonne Van Dongen: Street talker

Street epistemology is all about asking questions so it’s appropriate that Boghossian should ask what topics to raise in Auckland. The obvious answer, in my opinion, is anything to do with Maori sovereignty and equal rights.

Anyone wandering around Britomart on December 6 may find themselves taking part in street epistemology. That is, they may be asked to interrogate their deepest assumptions about particular issues, probably controversial, by the world’s most well known exponent of street epistemology, American professor Peter Boghossian. And have their responses recorded, to be viewed online sometime in the new year.