Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
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episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to discuss their five favorite comic films with philosophical/psychological themes. Groundhog Day was off-limits for our top five (we would've all chosen it) so we start by explaining why it's the quintessential movie for this topic.
Links[all movie links are to imdb.com]
- Paul's Top 5
- The Big Lebowski
- Shaun of the Dead
- The Man with Two Brains/All of Me
- Stranger than Fiction
- Being There
- Tamler's Top 5
- Defending Your Life/Lost in America
- Modern Times
- Seven Psychopaths/In Bruges
- Barton Fink/Sullivan's Travels
- Purple Rose of Cairo
- David's Top 5
- Office Space
- Dr. Strangelove
- Pinker, S. (1999). "The Doomsday Machine" in How the mind works. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 882(1), 119-127.
- Brazil
- Trading Places
- Mr. Skin
- The Princess Bride
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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