Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
We dig into the biggest rivalry in Tamler’s profession, analytic vs. continental philosophy. Are analytic philosophers truly the rigorous, precise, clear thinkers they take themselves to be? And is continental philosophy really just a bunch pretentious charlatans spouting French and German gibberish and writing obscure prose to mask the incoherence of their ideas? We look at a nice paper by Neil Levy that goes beyond the stereotypes and tries to describe and explain the differences between the two schools.
Plus, The University of Austin (sic) is back in the news and we have a report from someone who attended one of their Forbidden Courses. This should be so easy but the article has us deeply conflicted about what to make fun of.
[Important update: Trixie is on a 5 day streak of no accidents and is a perfect little sweet girl.]
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| 0:00.0 | Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist Dave Vizarro, |
| 0:06.0 | having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say and knowing my dad |
| 0:14.5 | some very inappropriate jokes. We in comparison to that enormous articulation |
| 0:20.9 | we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half finished |
| 0:27.5 | sentences out of a stupid suburban novel. Pay no attention to that man behind a curtain. |
| 0:44.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:50.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:51.0 | Who are you? A very bad man. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:56.0 | Good man. |
| 0:58.0 | They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. |
| 1:04.0 | May no attention to that man. |
| 1:07.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:12.0 | You're a brain? You're a very bad man. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:18.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:21.0 | Welcome to very Bad Wizards. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Tamer Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:25.0 | Dave, my long national nightmare is finally over. |
| 1:30.0 | My house once again has a dog in it. |
| 1:33.4 | Can you guess? |
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