How to Be a Good Analytical Philosopher

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I think that I share your frustration Tamler about any theory that tries to to Explain at all with a set of necessary insufficient conditions and in science. You'd be a fool to try to come up with a unified Theory of what makes something funny or why we laugh it really is probably gonna be a mixture of a whole like three or four Different theories that we all sort of like that are kind of related. What Val's describing is being clear about concepts and Part of it is a good counter example Can distinguish between two different theories.

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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