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 112: Gettier Goggles
For four years Tamler has been bitching about Gettier cases without even explaining what they are or why he hates them. That ends today. David and Tamler talk about the famous paper that challenged the (widespread? non-existent?) notion that knowledge is, and only is, justified true belief. We talk about the so-called skeptics about knowledge that Gettier inspired, then discuss the real skepticism that Descartes examined with his evil demon thought experiment. Plus, you know how you're in a monogamous relationship because of science? Well, turns out that science may be flawed....
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- The idea of monogamy as a relationship ideal is based on flawed science — Quartz
- A Former Student Says UC Berkeley’s Star Philosophy Professor Groped Her And Watched Porn At Work - BuzzFeed News
- About - The Casual Sex Project
- The Woman With an Alternative Theory of Hookups -- The Cut
- Clark, R. D., & Hatfield, E. (1989). Gender differences in receptivity to sexual offers. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 2(1), 39-55.
- Research - The Gottman Institute
- Break music: Shadow Play by peez
- Brock Jarrett on Twitter: "I was shocked to meet a podcast hero at a coffee shop in Denver. @tamler @verybadwizards https://t.co/4WBdqhUw8t"
- #BONUS – “Dr. David Pizarro from Very Bad Wizards.” - I Doubt It with Dollemore
- A Good Cause: Sponsor Tamler in the 2017 BP MS 150
- Gettier, E. L. (1963). Is justified true belief knowledge?. analysis, 23(6), 121-123.
- Frankfurt cases - Wikipedia
- Evil demon - Wikipedia
- The Long Road to Skepticism on JSTOR