Very Bad Wizards

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 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

In Part 2 of our episode with film scholar Yoel Inbar (AOS: Quebecois New Wave Cinema), we break down the philosophy and psychology of the movie Arrival. [Note: Massive spoilers, see the movie first!]...

22 Mar 20171h 3min

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Any time the topic is campus politics there's a good chance we'll have to record more than once. True to form, David and Tamler yelled at each other for most of the first attempt to discuss the Middle...

14 Mar 201741min

Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

David and Tamler return to their repugnant roots to talk about Cornell's refusal to hire conservative faculty, Milo getting disinvited from CPAC, and a case in Canada involving child sex dolls and a b...

28 Feb 20171h 11min

Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Inspired by a recent article, David and Tamler try to figure out what's behind our aversion to moral hypocrisy. Why do we have such low opinions of people who don't practice what they preach? Shouldn'...

7 Feb 20171h 14min

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

The philosopher and pride of Bakersfield, CA Manuel Vargas joins us to talk about culpability under conditions of oppression. How should we treat wrongdoers when their actions and character are shaped...

24 Jan 20171h 21min

Episode 106: American Grandstand

Episode 106: American Grandstand

David and Tamler take a break from moral grandstanding to talk about moral grandstanding. How often do we moralize to make us look respectable? Does grandstanding make us more cynical about ethical de...

10 Jan 20171h 17min

Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

David and Tamler go back to basics--discussing a paper (Victoria McGeer on responsibilty and Strawson) and arguing about restorative justice. What is the function of attitudes like resentment and ange...

28 Des 20161h 23min

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Paul Bloom takes some time away from his "Waking Up" appearances to join us for a very special movie episode: our top three films about empathy. Can movies help us understand the experiences of people...

14 Des 20161h 33min

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