Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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.

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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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