Exercising Critical Thought

Fabi and I have been discussing how people use or don't use critical thought to check in with why they believe what they believe for several episodes since we began the podcast.  In this episode we listen in on a thought experiment on Youtube, conducted by Dr. Peter Boghossian that engages with the claim: "My Body, My Choice" should be consistent for vaccines and abortion.  We react to the participants responses and give our thoughts on how people back up their own beliefs and how they react to other people's beliefs.     Dr. Peter Boghossian's Bio: Dr. Peter Boghossian's main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years and 30 thousand students - in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, seminaries, universities, Fortune 100 companies, and small businesses. His fundamental objective is to teach people how to think through what often seem to be intractable problems. Peter's primary research areas are critical thinking and moral reasoning. His doctoral research studies, funded by the State of Oregon and supported by the Oregon Department of Corrections, consisted of using the Socratic method to help prison inmates to increase their critical thinking and moral reasoning abilities and to increase their desistance to criminal behavior. Peter is also a an Author and his publications can be found in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Areo, The American Mind, The Clearing House, Corrections Today, CounterPunch, Education Policy Analysis, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Essays in Philosophy, Federal Probation Journal, Free Inquiry, Informal Logic, Inside Higher Ed, Journal of Correctional Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, The Los Angeles Times, Motherboard, Quillette, New Discourses, National Review, New Statesman, Offender Programs Report, The Philosophers’ Magazine, Philosophy's Future, The Radical Academy, Radical Pedagogy, Scientific American, Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, The Spectator, Teaching Philosophy, Truthout, and USA Today.   Join the conversation on Telegram at: https://t.me/tcrpodcast We have a Rumble video channel that features our interview segments at: https://rumble.com/c/c-1453444 Resources from this episode: Link to Dr. Peter Boghossian thought experiment featured in podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoYDrgPc7QI Dr Peter Boghossian's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/drpeterboghossian Dr Peter Boghossian's Website: https://peterboghossian.com/ Dr Thomas Cowan and Sally Fallon Morrell's Book, The Contagion Myth featured in discussion related to the rabies virus: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Contagion-Exploring-Theories/dp/1510768823/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VMI4C489RVFT&keywords=the+contagion+myth&qid=1657208190&sprefix=the+contagion+myth%2Caps%2C585&sr=8-1