Episode 9: Dangerous Reflections (with Valerie Tiberius)

Can philosophers and psychologists work together to guide us towards living wisely? In pursuing the good life, can too much reflection be dangerous? Might philosophers have downplayed the importance of getting lost in experience? Valerie Tiberius joins Igor and Charles to discuss positive illusions, values integration, bearing our own reflective survey, and the perils of excessive introspection. Igor has questions about the rise of the empirically-informed movement in philosophy, Valerie suggests humility is critical to friendship, and Charles wants to know how hit-moral-philosophy-comedy ‘The Good Life’ ever got commissioned. Welcome to Episode 9.

Special Guest: Valerie Tiberius.

Links:

• Valerie Tiberius's website
• The Reflective Life: Living Wisely With Our Limits
• Well-Being as Value Fulfillment How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well Valerie Tiberius (Oxford University Press)
• Wisdom Through Reflection - The New York Academy of Sciences, February 3, 2016 (Video) — An excerpt from "Cultivating Character: The Art of Living" featuring Steve Paulson, Valerie Tiberius, Philip Kitcher and Lisa Feldman Barrett.
• Conversations on Wisdom: UnCut Interview with Valerie Tiberius - Centre for Practical Wisdom, University of Chicago (Video)
• The Good Place
• What We Owe to Each Other - T. M. Scanlon
• Schwartz theory of basic values
• Toward a universal psychological structure of human values - Shalom Schwartz, Wolfgang Bilsky, (1987)
• BBC Tomorrow's World: Global Values - Where do you fit?
• DeYoung Personality Laboratory - Prof. Colin DeYoung
• The Many Faces of Wisdom: An Investigation of Cultural-Historical Wisdom Exemplars Reveals Practical, Philosophical, and Benevolent Prototypes. Weststrate NM, Ferrari M, Ardelt M (2016)
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom - Jonathan Haidt
• Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious - Timothy D. Wilson
• David Hume (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Virtue Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Exploring Solomon's paradox: self-distancing eliminates the self-other asymmetry in wise reasoning about close relationships in younger and older adults - Grossmann, Kross (2014)
• How Theories of Well-Being Can Help Us Help - Tiberius (2018) — Includes an outline of Tiberius' Value Fulfillment Theory