The Importance of Internalism

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Internalism follows from a more general supervenience principle closely related to one endorsed by GE Moore. If SUP is true the intrinsic value of a time is determined by its intrinsic nature not by anything happening at any other time. This is because as noted above the value atoms should be instantiations of the fundamental good or bad making properties. The properties that are fundamentally and completely responsible for how well a world or a life or dot dot dot goes.

David and Tamler welcome author and environmental science professor Jennifer Jacquet to the podcast to discuss the pros and cons of shame. What's the difference between shame and guilt? Is shaming effective for generating social progress or getting tax cheats to pay up? Is twitter shaming on the rise or on its way out? And what does David do when he's alone in the dark?

But before all of that, David and Tamler introduce a new way to support the podcast--through our Patreon account (patreon.com/verybadwizards). Plus, we discuss the retraction of a press release announcing that a professor agreed to referee a journal article (!) And can one passage get Tamler, the eternal optimist, to hate philosophy?

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