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How a Philosopher Can Help Us Do Good Better
The role of philosophers is to think really hard about what matters and then work out what we should do next as a result. In my case the direction that took me in was thinking oh look there's this thing called happiness which matters like can we really measure it? And so I've just started with philosophy and ended up in economics and now I end up learning about things like mental health and you know neuroscience. This is like I've really kind of you know the apple has rolled quite a long way for the tree, isn't it?