"Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide" for discussing controversial topics

JGeropoulas

The Living Force
James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian’s new book, "Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide" is a step-by-step instruction manual on how to discuss emotive and controversial topics without losing friends, alienating people or developing a reputation as a bore. Drawing on Boghossian’s work helping prison inmates develop better moral reasoning skills, hostage negotiation techniques and street epistemology—brief, friendly conversations with strangers to encourage them to doubt deeply held but irrational beliefs—the authors outline a series of exercises that can gradually nudge people away from dogmatic certainty and towards greater openness to new ideas.

Below is a link to a great review of it by Iona Italia, PhD, a former academic who now works as a writer, editor and general wordsmith. She is Areo's subeditor, host of the podcast Two for Tea and part of the team at Letter.Wiki. A Parsi of mixed Scottish and Indian ancestry, she has lived in five countries and speaks four languages. Iona is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her most recent book is "Our Tango World," published by Milonga Press UK and available on Amazon.

 
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