
Bonus Episode: The Philosophy of Action
Philosophy For Our Times
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How Do We Decide?
Barry smith, director of the institute of philosophy, explores this as he responds to benson bencer talks about those long range, long term decisions. To be a good decision maker, you actually have to have several decision making mechanisms, and they operate different speeds and different scales. Think of skiing down a hill anyor heading towards a tree, swere right, swere left, or into the tree and die. You really just have to have a system that we'll simply take that decision for you.
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