Episode 299: Oh the Humility!

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler talk wrap up the new year talking about intellectual virtues and Rachel Fraser’s excellent essay “Against Humility.” What is intellectual humility exactly and do we need it for knowledge and understanding? Does the value of humility depend on the person or the circumstances? Are there contexts where intellectual arrogance is the epistemic virtue? We arrive at the definitive answers to these questions and anyone who disagrees with us is a stupid idiot.

Plus in the second segment we present THE AMBIES (..the ambies), the final episode of "The Ambulators," our episode by episode breakdown of David Milch’s Deadwood. It’s a clip-filled awards ceremony to celebrate what might be the great TV series of all time. Highlights include Best Quote, Best Scene, Best Character (other than Al), Best Slur, Best Antisemitic slur, and lots more.

"Why intellectual humility isn't always a virtue" by Rachel Fraser [aeon.co]

Deadwood (TV Series) [wikipedia.org]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Vizarro, having an informal discussion about issues in 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, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	I may have fucked my life up flattered and hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholding to no human cock sucker.
0:25.3	The great end boss has spoken.
0:32.1	Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:42.3	Who are you?
0:43.3	Who are you?
0:45.3	I'm a very bad man.
0:47.3	I'm a very good man.
0:49.3	Good man.
0:51.3	They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have
0:56.6	pay no attention tonight man anybody can have a brain
1:05.1	you're a very bad man
1:09.2	I'm a very good man just a very bad man. I'm a very good man.
1:11.6	Just a very bad wizard.
1:14.5	Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.
1:16.0	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:18.8	Dave, Penn grads are shooting CEOs.
1:22.0	Jesse Single joined Blue Sky and caused a meltdown,
1:25.6	and mysterious drones fill the New Jersey skies. Have we entered
1:30.3	late, late capitalism? It's very late. It's like 1159 p.m. capitalism.
1:41.3	Totally. And you send those three things together, you just get a sense of absurdity.
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