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 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

It's our last episode on campus protests and political correctness for a while, we promise! But it's a fun one.  David and Tamler welcome two guests on the opposite side of the debate spectrum. Recent...

21 Des 20151h 40min

Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

Special guest Valerie Tiberius joins us to talk about values, well-being, and friendship. What role should reflection play in the good life? What about emotion? How can we make our values more consist...

4 Des 20151h 47min

Episode 78: Wizards Uprising

Episode 78: Wizards Uprising

David and Tamler return to the minefield of campus politics and talk about recent events at Yale, Missouri, and Amherst. Are the protests are long overdue response to systematic oppression and prejudi...

24 Nov 20151h 8min

Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

Special guest Eric Schwitzgebel joins David and Tamler to discuss the moral behavior (or lack thereof) of ethicists. Does moral reflection make us better people, or does it just give us better excuses...

9 Nov 20151h 20min

Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes

Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes

David and Tamler list three things they've changed their minds about in their careers. (This episode was recorded before Episode 75, but that one was way too long already.) What does Tamler think abou...

26 Okt 20151h 2min

Episode 75: A Golden Shower of Guests

Episode 75: A Golden Shower of Guests

Dave and Tamler celebrate their 75th episode by welcoming six BFFs of the podcast and asking them to share the biggest thing they've changed their minds about in their professional careers. You'll hea...

6 Okt 20152h 29min

Episode 74: Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison

Episode 74: Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison

David and Tamler return after an end of summer hiatus to finally talk about the ethics of deception….eventually. But first they break down a recent article in the journal Science documenting an attemp...

16 Sep 20151h 53min

Episode 73: Authentic Apes and Infinite Torture

Episode 73: Authentic Apes and Infinite Torture

In what is possibly our most repugnant first segment ever, David and Tamler break down the ethics of zoophilia and investigate the true nature of consent. In the second segment we answer some listener...

12 Aug 20151h 8min

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