The Importance of a Subjectivist Account

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There's still a Lot we can do with a very sophisticated subjectivist account Which would allow people to be wrong, you know to have inappropriate values. You can fit within your Account while still just accepting that there aren't objective values. I thought a thought experiment where Dave actually likes to As a as a pedantic aside, I don't use the word happiness but Just because I think happiness is kind of from talking to my students and other normal people It seems to have really come to be associated with a feeling rather than something big and bad So what do you use flourishing?

Special guest Valerie Tiberius joins us to talk about values, well-being, and friendship. What role should reflection play in the good life? What about emotion? How can we make our values more consistent and sustainable? Do we know our friends better than we know ourselves? Plus, are philosophers experts? Experts of what? What are the boundaries of our discipline? And what motivates a gay Mormon to stay in the Church? In the first segment, David and Tamler list a few things they're grateful for on Thanksgiving, including you, the listeners (awwwwww...)

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National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation [wikipedia.org]
Valerie Tiberius personal website [sites.google.com]
Tiberius, V. (2012) Cell Phones, iPods, and Subjective Well-Being. In Brey, P., A. Briggle & E. Spence (Eds.). The good life in a technological age. Routledge. [verybadwizards.com]
Desire theories of well-being ( from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Well-Being) [plato.stanford.edu]

Special Guest: Valerie Tiberius.

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