Episode 32: Disagreeing About Disagreement

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2013

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Part II of our discussion on Rai and Fiske (sort of): We answer a listener's email and in the process get into an episode long argument about moral intuitions, psychological facts, the implications of moral disagreement. Before that, we talk about the recent study about testicles and parenting. We don't play small ball on this one.

Links

Testicular volume is inversely correlated with nurturing-related brain activity in human fathers [pnas.org]
"Study: You May be a Terrible Dad Because You Have Enormous Testicles"
"Aw Nuts! Nurturing Dads Have Smaller Testicles, Study Shows"
"Want to Know if Your Partner Will Be a Good Dad? Measure His Testicles."
Frances Kamm [wikipedia.org]
Reflective Equilibrium [plato.stanford.edu]
Doris, J. M., and Plakias, A. (2008). “How to Argue about Disagreement: Evaluative Diversity and Moral Realism.” In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality. Cambridge: MIT Press

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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 and signs and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:16.9	All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break them for no.
0:22.4	Do you want to stay?
0:30.8	Maybe my attention to that man behind the first.
0:40.0	Who are you?
0:42.0	Who are you?
0:43.2	I'm very bad man.
0:45.2	I'm a very good man.
0:46.8	Good, bad man.
0:48.0	Good, bad man.
0:50.0	Good, bad man.
0:52.0	Good, bad man.
0:54.0	And with no more brains than you have.
0:56.0	Maybe my attention to that man.
0:58.0	You're a very bad man, I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard.
1:12.6	Chapter 6.
1:13.6	Fucking, making straight up decisions now, dude.
1:17.4	As my epic come back, near its zenith, I can't help but look back at the low times
1:22.0	and there was no hope or light.
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