Episode 27: You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2013
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Our streak of very special guests continues! Philosopher Eddy Nahmias joins the podcast to us why people mistakenly think they're not morally responsible, and how his new study casts doubt on Sam Harris's "pamphlet" on free will. Eddy also describes his new project (with Toni Adleberg and Morgan Thompson) on why women leave philosophy. Plus Dave and I discuss some reasons for having children, and eat a little Partially Examined Life crow.
Links
"Name five women in philosophy. Bet you can't." Tania Lombrozo, [npr.og]
"Do Women Have Different Philosophical Intuitions than Men?" Eddy Nahmias (philosophyofbrains.com)
"Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?' Eddy Nahmias. [nytimes.com]
Eddy on Bypassing [agencyandresponsbility.typepad.com]
Edd trashing Tamler's Book [agencyandresponsbility.typepad.com]
Special Guest: Eddy Nahmias.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:07.6 | having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. |
| 0:11.0 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of loud to say, and knowing |
| 0:15.6 | my dad, some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:18.8 | That you stop saying, fuck all the time. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to very bad wizards, I'm Tamler Summers, Dave. |
| 1:14.5 | We called our guest for today, Eddie Namius, the Frado of Experimental Philosophy. |
| 1:20.3 | What Godfather character are you? |
| 1:24.5 | I don't want to be arrogant about this sort of thing, because usually I'm actually well |
| 1:29.1 | known for my humility, but I have to be the consiglieri. |
| 1:32.7 | I don't remember anything. |
| 1:34.8 | I'm Tommy again. |
| 1:36.5 | I'm the Robert Duval character. |
| 1:39.2 | Is that the reason I was here? |
| 1:41.2 | Robert Duval. |
| 1:42.2 | Robert Duval. |
| 1:43.2 | I just feel like everybody turns to me, you know. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.3 | I was thinking more, you're that guy right at the beginning of the movie, who just keeps |
| 1:53.1 | repeating himself what an honor it is. |
| 1:56.4 | You're Luka Bratzi. |
| 1:58.4 | Luka Bratzi, that guy guy. |
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