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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 17 days 18 hours 55 minutes
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episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes
Tamler and David discuss the increasingly trollish nature of Aeon Magazine articles, then discuss (and argue about) philosopher Victoria McGeer's 2012 article "Co-reactive attitudes and the making of moral community."
episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
Paul Bloom joins Tamler and David to discuss their picks for the top three movies about empathy.
episode 103: Very Bad Utopias
David and Tamler give thanks to their listeners and Patreon supporters with an episode chosen by our top Patreon subscribers--the drafting of a "constitution" for our very own Utopia.
episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue
Tamler and David talk about the 2016 US presidential election, and more serious things like Black Mirror's "San Junipero" episode.
episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too
David and Tamler argue over how much we can learn about moral responsibility from the way we attribute blame and praise in the domains of art and sports.
episode 100: It's a Celebration
David and Tamler celebrate their 100th episode with champagne, bourbon, an online test of our moral judgments, and an AMA.
episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot
David and Tamler tackle claims of decepto-criticism in psychology, discuss the dilemmas of 7th grade theater production, and have a lengthy discussion of Mr. Robot Season 2.
episode 97: Dogmatic Slumber Party
David and Tamler take on motivated reasoning and our biased processing of information to favor positions we are predisposed to believe.
episode 96: Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom)
Paul Bloom joins us to discuss Christopher Nolan's "Memento."