Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

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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Very Bad Wizards

Episodios

Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life

Episode 325: It Is Happening Again

Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro

Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")

Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)

Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

Episode 220: On Your Marx

Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors

Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

Episode 216: Oral Judgments

Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey

Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)

Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"

Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)

Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)

Episode 208: Dream Theater

Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray

Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)

Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")

Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")

Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

Episode 191: All the Rage

Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt's "On Bullshit")

Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

Episode 187: More Zither

Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer

Episode 185: The Devil's Playground

Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters

Episode 184: Tainted Glove

Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)

Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)