Is There More to Scientific Rationality Than Just Consistent Evidence?

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The problem of persuading people about ordinary facts, which is journalistic facts at this point has become fairly excruciating. So the idea that it remains difficult to persuade people about divergent moral facts is somehow no longer surprising. I think a good place to start is the distinction you make between being happy and living well how do you think about those two concepts?

Sam Harris speaks to Kieran Setiya about the relevance of philosophy to living a good life. They discuss the existence of objective moral truths, being happy vs living well, our response to grief, the difference between "telic" and "atelic" activities, the power of reframing, FOMO, bias toward the future, regret, the asymmetry between pain and pleasure, and other topics.

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