This episode of very bad wizards is brought to you by super speciosa cratum a tamler. At this week end, i was in toronto, and i was just walking through the old stomping grounds that i had when we started recording this podcast. And i walked like, i think, ten miles. The next day, i needed crate very very badly ad after walking ten miles, walking 10 miles, i was wearing my air jordans. They weren't quite the walking shoes that i thought they were. Was just trying to look fly. I sas a pain killer. More i come home after a long day of teaching, or, you know, a day of
Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 analytic philosophy journal. Could a failed argument for the existence of God establish the existence of trees and mountains with “interiority” and “social characteristics”? Tamler wants to believe, but is the argument that'll push him over the edge?
Plus – speaking of top journals, a doozy of social psych article: Is forgiveness better than revenge at rehumanizing the self? Let's check the voodoo dolls to find out. Tamler is delighted by David’s reaction to this one.
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Links:
- The Common Consent Argument for the Existence of Nature Spirits by Tiddy Smith
- Peoples, H. C., Duda, P., & Marlowe, F. W. (2016). Hunter-gatherers and the origins of religion. Human Nature, 27(3), 261-282.
- Ingold, T. (2006). Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), 9-20.