Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Very Bad Wizards Crossover) (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On Stanley Milgram's "Behavioral Study of Obedience" (1963), Philip Zimbardo's "Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison" (1973), and John Doris's "Persons, Situations, and Virtue Ethics" (1998).
Do difficult situations make good people act badly? Are there really "good" and "bad" people, or are we all about the same, but put in different situations? With guest David Pizarro from the Very Bad Wizards podcast.
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| 0:16.4 | You're listening to The Partially Examined Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:20.2 | set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:23.1 | Our question for episode 176 is something like, |
| 0:26.1 | do difficult situations make a good people act badly? |
| 0:29.5 | And we read three articles, Stanley Milgram's Behavioral Study of Obedients from 1963, |
| 0:34.5 | Philip Zombardo's Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison, 1973, |
| 0:39.3 | and John Doris' Persons, Situations and Virtue Ethics, 1998. |
| 0:44.2 | For links to the articles and more information, please check out partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:48.6 | This is Mark Linson-Mirror, acting from the perverse incentive of trying to get good podcast ratings in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:54.7 | This is Seth Paskin in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:57.2 | This is Wes Aulman in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:59.7 | This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 1:02.0 | And this is David Pizarro from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. |
| 1:06.1 | Yay, Dave! Welcome! |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, welcome, Dave. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:10.3 | It'll be weird to be on a real philosophy podcast. |
| 1:12.9 | What makes you think this is real? |
| 1:16.0 | Ha, ha, real err. |
| 1:19.1 | So how did you end up on this podcast? |
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