Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2013
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil , racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .
Links
- The Baby in the Well: The Case Against Empathy by Paul Bloom [newyorker.com]
- Descartes' Baby by Paul Bloom [amazon.com]
- Jesse Prinz "Is empathy necessary for morality" [subcortex.com]
- Pizarro, Bloom, and Detweiler-Bedell on the empathy, disgust, and the moral circle [peezer.net]
- Pre-order Just babies: The origins of good and evil by Paul Bloom [amazon.com]
- Louis CK: My Life is Really Evil.
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
Transcript
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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 in science and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.1 | Uh-oh. Is this going to be another crazy experiment that crosses a line man was not meant to cross? |
| 0:22.2 | The lady on his phone said, |
| 0:28.6 | Way to audition to that man behind the person. |
| 0:38.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:40.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.8 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:45.8 | Good man. |
| 0:47.8 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:11.0 | Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm Tamlo Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University. |
| 1:17.0 | And on today's episode, we have Paul Bloom, |
| 1:21.0 | developmental psychologist at Yale, |
| 1:24.0 | your old advisor. |
| 1:26.0 | And a superhero, Paul Bloom. |
| 1:28.0 | Yes, my old advisor and somebody who... |
| 1:31.0 | Well, I'm sure we'll kiss his ass later. |
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