jordan peterson

A friend of mine suggested this event, which was originally scheduled for April but had to be cancelled. I had encountered Peterson during the Covid year, while surfing through Youtube. I found him an interesting and entertaining lecturer/philosopher, and I was particularly struck by how...

(Wasn't sure which forum to post this into, but thought General Skepticism was the best fit.) Jordan Petersen's long awaited echo chamber social media site ("Thinkspot") has [launched in beta], and the panel of contributors users can subscribe to includes Michael Shermer. His peers include...

You guys know about Jordan Peterson, right? For anyone who hasn't heard of him, he's a Canadian psychologist and a professor. He's also a bit of a "self-help guru" if I can use that term. He recently wrote a best-selling book called 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, and he has a popular...

I'm one of the many who has been following Jordan Peterson. My first exposure to him was the famous interview with Cathy So-you're-saying Newman. Peterson always struck me as a very rational fella, and even after I first heard him talk about the Metaphysical, and after realizing that he's a...

Recently on Real Time, Jordan Peterson suggested to Maher and the panel that they be sensitive to Trump supporters and "hold out their hand" to them and understand them. This is coming from a person who tells activists to "clean their room". Why is there this double-standard where...

This may be an interesting topic. These two begin a discussion in which they agree with the need for academic freedom, and then move on to an area where they disagree. It seems that Jordan Peterson has an argument that the *truth of religion resides in its evolutionarily derived power to prolong...