The Importance of Listening

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The interpersonal relationship gives objective information that I think your account is saying is a valuable piece of understanding values and how they mesh together. We do have a tendency to think we know what will be good for people we care about too, but part of being a good friend is learning how to conquer that too. One of the biggest challenges of interpersonal relationships because there is a sense at Valerie, you're pointing to this stuff. It's hard to ever know what anybody's personal experience is. And again, the strength I think of the account that you're defending here is that there is tomorrow, the economists term, there are revealed preferences. And there are, I think, revealed values. The expertise

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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