Episode 235: Animated Objects

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 analytic philosophy journal. Could a failed argument for the existence of God establish the existence of trees and mountains with “interiority” and “social characteristics”? Tamler wants to believe, but is the argument that'll push him over the edge?

Plus – speaking of top journals, a doozy of social psych article: Is forgiveness better than revenge at rehumanizing the self? Let's check the voodoo dolls to find out. Tamler is delighted by David’s reaction to this one.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	I had to sit down with Jay-Z until him. Snoop is the most famous rapper ever.
0:22.4	What do you say? He agreed. He did? Not really.
0:29.6	The lady on his phone said, they do attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:48.4	Who are you? Who are you? I'm very bad men.
0:53.6	I'm a very good man. Good man.
1:00.0	They think he's lost and with no more brains than you have.
1:03.6	They do attention to that man.
1:09.6	Anybody can have a brain.
1:13.6	You're a very bad man.
1:16.0	I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard.
1:20.0	Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:24.1	Dave, today we're going to break down a definitive argument for the existence of supernatural spirits.
1:30.8	What form is your apology to me going to take? Are you going to be public?
1:34.8	Are you just going to do it in private?
1:36.2	Or like, if you thought about that?
1:41.3	I really was feeling so strongly that the apology was going to go the other way.
1:45.0	I don't know what to say.
1:46.6	I feel like the spirits of the trees and mountains should be compelling you to do the right thing here.
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