How to Survive as a Discipline

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Valerie Taylor: Do you think philosophy needs a better coherent answer to if we're going to survive as a discipline. I'm not a very good strategic thinker but I am inclined to think we'd be better off if we had good snappy answers to these questions about ourselves. So it's sort of like a theory of well being but just applied to the. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, actually in fact you know that. In fact, would you like, would you, well never mind. I'll ask you about that later.

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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