Episode 25: Burning Armchairs (with Joshua Knobe)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2013

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Josh Knobe, the Michael Corleone of experimental philosophy, joins us to talk about taking philosophy into the lab and the streets. We discuss how people moralize everyday concepts like intention, causation, and innateness. Dave wonders if X-phi people are just doing social psychology, and Tamler tries his best to get Josh mad with his critique of Josh's experimental work on free will. He might have succeeded but that argument had to be cut a little short this time. We'll have to have Josh back for the rematch!

Links

Experimental philosophy Anthem [youtube.com]

Experimental Philosophy [fun 3 minute overview, youtube.com]

The Experimental Philosophy webpage.

Josh Knobe's webpage

Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist by Joshua Knobe

Philosophy meets the real world [slate.com]

In Memoriam: The X-Phi Debate by Tamler Sommers [Philosophers Magazine]

Experimental Philosophy and Free Will: An Intervention by Tamler Sommers

Experimental Philosophy [wikipedia.org]

Using the Knobe effect as an implicit measure of homophobia: Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., Knobe, J., & Bloom, P. (2009). Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays, Emotion, 9, 435-439.

Special Guest: Joshua Knobe.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and 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 out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	Wait, what's that? I've just blanked on what you say. Welcome to very bad wizards.
0:22.6	Yeah, okay, so.
0:23.6	Oh my god, how much have you been doing?
0:26.4	A fan on his phone.
0:31.3	Hey, do you want attention to that fan behind the curtain?
0:36.4	Who are you?
0:42.4	Who are you?
0:44.4	I'm very bad man.
0:46.4	I'm a very good man.
0:48.4	Good man.
0:49.4	Good man.
0:50.4	I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard.
1:14.8	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:16.0	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:18.4	And I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:20.8	I think the reason I blanked on it is because it was just so lame.
1:24.0	I was like, that can't be it.
1:25.6	That can't be what we say.
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