Very Bad Wizards

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 6: Trolleys, Utilitarians, and Psychopaths (Part 1)


Tamler contemplates ending it all because he can't get 'Call Me Maybe' out of his head, and Dave doesn't try to talk him out of it. This is followed by a discussion about drones, psychopaths, Canadians, Elle Fanning, horrible moral dilemmas, and the biggest rivalry in Ethics: utilitarians vs. Kantians.   

Links

"Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama." by Conor Friedersdorf

"Why I Refuse to Refuse to Vote for Obama" by Robert Wright.

Dave's study "The Mismeasure of Morals"

The write-up of Dave's study in The Economist: "Goodness Has Nothing to Do With It"

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 October 20, 2012  1h1m