The Importance of Being a Good Man

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We get so many emails where people are so grateful because like this is the kind of stuff they've been thinking about, but they don't have anybody to talk to. And you know, from all around the world and like just like the nicest things people have said to us. It's it's definitely a time suck of unimaginable proportions, but it's like worth it. They think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. They do our attention to that man. Anybody can have a brain? You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard."

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...)

Links

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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