Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) continues the Transylvania Lectures series with a special guest: dr. Peter Boghossian is an American philosopher and pedagogist, Senior Fellow at MCC.

Dr Peter Boghossian was part of the Grievance Studies affair that rocked the US academic world in 2018. With his colleagues, James A. Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, he has published a number of absurdly themed, nonsensical fake studies in academic journals. The texts parody the language and choice of topics in today’s social sciences, highlighting the shortcomings of academic journals and universities and the fact that almost anything is accepted if it is presented in the right ideological guise.

Dr Peter Boghossian is currently a Founding Faculty Fellow at the University of Austin and the Director of National Progress Alliance. His main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. With a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years (in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, 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. His primary research areas are critical thinking and moral reasoning. He is the author of numerous publications and the books titled A Manual for Creating Atheists and How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide.

This lecture, with Q&A, will give you practical tools to speak with people who hold different beliefs. Whether political, religious, or moral, you will learn strategies to guide you through the most difficult conversations.

Moderator: Botond Csoma lawyer, political scientist, Member of Parliament