Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty's "Solidarity or Objectivity." Can we discover facts about the world as it "really is," independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who's not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.
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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 | You know, anything too hard in life is not worth doing. Remember that. |
| 0:20.5 | Okay. Like snowboarding or martial arts, you know? |
| 0:24.7 | Pottery. |
| 0:25.5 | Right. |
| 0:26.2 | Or, um, math. |
| 0:31.6 | The cleaning on his faucet. |
| 0:36.0 | Way to audition to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:44.5 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:48.2 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:51.5 | Good man. |
| 0:52.7 | The amazing things thoughts and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:59.6 | Way to audition to that man. |
| 1:05.7 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:09.7 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:12.2 | That's a very good man. |
| 1:14.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
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