Episode 31: An Anthropologist's Guide to Moral Psychology (Pt. 1)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2013
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In the first of a two-part episode, we discuss one of our favorite recent papers--Tage Rai and Alan Page Fiske's 2011 paper on how social relationships shape and motivate our moral emotions and judgments. We also talk about Sam Harris' $20,000 Moral Landscape Challenge, and whether there's any real chance of convincing him that the arguments he made in The Moral Landscape (first published in English in 2011) are wrong.
Links
Sam Harris' Moral Landscape Challenge [samharris.org]
Alan Fiske's overview of Relational Models Theory [sscnet.ucla.edu]
Tage Rai's research [kellogg.northwestern.edu]
Rai, T. S., & Fiske, A. P. (2011). Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. Psychological review, 118, 57-75. [irsp.ucla.edu]
Transcript
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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 lead to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:16.8 | How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me. |
| 0:20.5 | The plan on his philosophy. |
| 0:26.9 | Way to attention to that bad mind at first. |
| 0:30.9 | Who are you? Who are you? I'm very bad man. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm a very good man. Good man. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm just a very bad wizard. Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 0:56.1 | Dave, today we're going to talk about a theory that says morality cannot be used. |
| 1:02.1 | You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:08.1 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:12.1 | Dave, today we're going to talk about a theory that says morality cannot be viewed |
| 1:16.1 | in isolation of its social-relational context. What's our social-relational context? |
| 1:22.1 | What's the one with the Pimp in the prostitute? I think it's kind of like that one. |
| 1:26.1 | I'll leave it to the listeners to decide who's who. |
| 1:30.1 | Hint, the one with the haircut of the haunted child is the Pimp. |
| 1:36.1 | By the way, I want to hear from that guy again. I love that email. |
| 1:40.1 | I don't even think we actually responded except for laughing at the haunted. |
| 1:44.1 | Even though it was a funny email, I was... |
| 1:48.1 | You were distressed. |
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