The Best Version of the Argument Supports Animism

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This is what people were telling us is like when we were disappointed with panpsychism. Soi if people independently arrive at the same conclusion scientifically, people whove never talked to each other, then we think that this scientific claim has a greater chance of being true. The best explanation for that might be that that's because animism is true. And so he points to this agreement, this independent agreement, as a epistemically, sort of just very valuable and says, this isn't this the way we do science.

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.