I Don't Believe in Rits

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If you have more faith in science as a tool that can explain a reality, then i don't. It's not that i believe science has all the answers. But ther is a need to constrain,. like, our wild imagination in a way that sort of science brings discipline to saying what could plausibly be true and what couldn't plausibly betrue. And so one of the things that about this paper, specifically, that relates to this, is that it doesn't get off the ground for me because agreement can never be the soul or an epistemic criteria. Because when i say that i don't believe in rits, it's also because if i believed in spirits, it

Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 analytic philosophy journal. Could a failed argument for the existence of God establish the existence of trees and mountains with “interiority” and “social characteristics”? Tamler wants to believe, but is the argument that'll push him over the edge?

Plus – speaking of top journals, a doozy of social psych article: Is forgiveness better than revenge at rehumanizing the self? Let's check the voodoo dolls to find out. Tamler is delighted by David’s reaction to this one.