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Please learn about and use Spectrum Street Epistemology*** to bring light back into your classrooms.
Greetings University of Lethbridge Administration and Faculty:
If you have forgotten the shameful events of February 1, 2023 and February 4, 2026, many of us have not. When students are deliberately triggered into shameful behaviour to prevent beliefs, opinions, or narratives from being questioned or examined, your motto Fiat Lux becomes a farce. And to top-off the Fiat Lux mockery, some of you did a DARVO.* Every honest observer saw what was spun for the media, the public, and the ULeth community: 1) deny the bad behaviour of ULeth students; 2) attack the victim (Widdowson); 3) reverse victim and offender = DARVO.*
The praising of students' cacophonous, disrespectful behaviour; use of the words “the students did a fantastic job in neutralizing her”; and the twisting by DARVO are the very opposite of Fiat Lux. They are Fiat Tenebris/Tenebrae.
Please end the black-and-white thinking** that has captured so much of academia. Please take a lesson from Chief Aaron Pete:
A Chief Breaks Down the Unmarked Graves Controversy
Nuanced with Aaron Pete | Aug 25, 2025 |Time 58:49 min.) at
Frances Widdowson & Chief Pete DEBATE the Unmarked Graves Story
Nuanced with Aaron Pete and Frances Widdowson | Sep 9, 2025 | Time 1:26:10 min.) at
Please restore Fiat Lux (“Let there be light”) at the University of Lethbridge with apologies and full spectrum epistemology.
Sincerely,
SMSmith
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*** Spectrum Street Epistemology
Street Epistemology is a conversational approach that helps people critically reflect on the quality of their reasoning through thoughtful, civil conversations. It offers a novel yet accessible way for nearly anyone who wants to explore their own or others’ beliefs while prioritizing autonomy, authenticity, accuracy, and attentiveness.
Street Epistemology is a reasoned conversation about the basis for belief.
More formally described, Street Epistemology is a conversational tool that helps people reflect on the quality of their reasons and the reliability of the methods used to derive one's confidence level in their deeply-held beliefs.[1]
An epistemology is a way of knowing. Street Epistemology (SE) applies Socratic methods to explore questions of belief. It explores the basis we have for the beliefs we hold.
SE is a practice. It is a collection of skills and techniques that you can apply during sincere conversations to explore important topics and discover new insights. While your objectives may differ, Street Epistemology is generally used to understand a claim (generally a proposition), identify the actual reasons and reliability of the methods used to support the claim, and determine if one's confidence in the claim is justified.
• The Official YouTube Channel of Street Epistemology: https://www.youtube.com/c/streetepistemology
“Spectrum Street Epistemology (SSE) is an engaging, non-threatening way to understand the reasons people have for their beliefs and to help them calibrate the confidence in those beliefs to the reasons they have for believing. This brief video will explain how to host an SSE event.”
“Philosopher Peter Boghossian leads a live Street Epistemology session with conference attendees, demonstrating how to have productive conversations across disagreement. In this interactive workshop, participants physically position themselves on a spectrum from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" on claims related to gender ideology.“
