Portland State hosted a panel of six students from different religious backgrounds titled “Unpacking Misconceptions” on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 in the basement of Smith Memorial Student Union. A Muslim…
Free speech or hate speech? Civil rights lawyer speaks at PSU
When Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, brought his dialogue concerning free speech on college campuses to Portland State on March 18,…
‘New campus thought police’: Freethinkers of PSU present dialogue on free speech
Amid tensions of the recent election cycle and questionable actions of the new United States president, a welling consensus emerges that the substantive engagement of ideas is under attack on…
Controversial authors will tackle free speech and safe spaces at PSU
Christina Hoff Sommers and Peter Boghossian join host Dave Rubin on January 27th (Doors Open at 6:30 pm) Two brilliant and uncompromising thinkers, bestselling author Christina Hoff Sommers and Portland’s…
Professor launches smartphone app to encourage critical thinking
Dialogue between skeptics and believers, in person or on Twitter, can result in hurtful language and invalid arguments. A new mobile app published by a Portland State philosophy professor aims…
A Manual for Creating Atheists
Professor Peter Boghossian, noted lecturer and philosophy teacher at Portland State University, will be giving and abstract of his new book, A Manual for Creating Atheists, and answering…
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