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hey it's your partially examined life nightcap we We are recording this in mid-October.

Maybe for you, the election has passed.

I'm not sure exactly when this will go up.

Maybe for you, Halloween is over.

But we're right in the thick of it.

It's the season.

Well, speaking of sadomasochism, Williamson.

Obviously, Williamson is a first-rate philosophical genius, and we probably should have focused on his philosophy of philosophy book, which looks to be aimed at a regular audience.

But the one that we did read the chapters of, at least there were parts of it that we had a little trouble.

Let's put it that way. Just out of curiosity, who is the intended audience of that book? Because I can't think of

anybody who would, is it academics that only care about the very small little thing?

It's academics who are trying to open to the challenge of becoming the philosophers of the future

that he seems to want them to be.

And he got in a little bit about philosophers should be trained in modeling, like an actual

mathematical modeling. And I was trying to get at like, well, what would a mathematical model

be in ethics, for instance, since he's really clearly interested in ethical theories, not just descriptive,

but normative ones. And I couldn't really suss out to him what that involves. So I guess we just

have to read more of his... Maybe if we had read more of the book, we would have gotten something

concrete. But my hunch is that I don't think this old... It's ingenious, right? To say that

philosophical problems arise out of us taking heuristics too seriously, to me,

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