The Importance of Balance in Philosophy

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I think we have been a bit out of balance. Too much of the big picture has been lost sight of but I don't want it to be the case that you have philosophers like waxing poetic about the big questions without any kind of precision or Any attention to what a good argument is. There's room for some philosophers who are good at that to do that But then there needs to be the other more rigorous style of philosophy. It's just that that side spun out of control and just Became 95% of the discipline so there was a Bernard Williams, but then Everybody else was the anti Williams. The book that I'm Working on now, which doesn't really have a title, but

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...)

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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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