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 65: Philocalypse Now
Holy crap, it's the apocalypse!!!!
...for philosophy. Maybe. Has this 2500 year old discipline become too technical, too disconnected from the real world? Is it just a handmaiden to the sciences? (Which would make Tamler Dave's handmaiden.) And what the hell is conceptual analysis? Plus, a short excerpt of Tamler's interview with Simon Blackburn, and definitive proof that worms have free will (sorry Sam). And only one more week to buy our t-shirt!
Links- Free Will? Analysis of worm neurons suggest how a single stimulus can trigger different responses [sciencedaily.com]
- Strawson, P. F. (1962). Freedom and resentment. [princeton.edu]
- Doomen, J. (2015). The end of philosophy. Think, 14(39), 99-109. [verybadwizards.com]
- For a Non-Ideal Metaphysics by Justin Smith [jehsmith.com]
- Concepts [plato.stanford.edu]
- Harry Frankfurt says Philosophy is in the Doldrums [http://leiterreports.typepad.com]
- Simon Blackburn's Website [phil.cam.ac.uk]
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