Episode 37: Porn, Poop, and Personal Identity (with Nina Strohminger)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The guest we've been waiting for--Nina Strohminger--joins us to talk about the connection between disgust and humor, cheap laughs, moral character and personal identity, and the British opt-in plan for porn. Plus: how psychologists measure erections and Dave goes Platonist about the form of hilarity. Tamler's daughter should have issued an extra strong disclaimer for this one.

Links

Nina Strohminger [ninastrohminger.com]
David Cameron Proposes Porn Filter [thedailybeast.com]
Strohminger, N. and Nichols, S. (in press). The Essential Moral Self. Cognition.

Special Guest: Nina Strohminger.

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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 not allowed to say, and knowing
0:15.6	my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:18.6	I love when white dudes get mad and cuss, right?
0:22.7	Because you're awesome fun and motherfuckers when you cuss!
0:28.2	But waitin' on, have fun!
0:32.2	Waitin' your attention till I stand behind the curtain.
0:41.2	Who are you?
0:43.2	Who are you?
0:45.2	I'm a very bad man.
0:46.2	I'm a very good man.
0:48.2	Good man.
0:53.2	Welcome to very bad wizards.
0:54.2	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
0:57.2	And I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University?
0:59.2	Nina, if you had to register with the government to watch porn, would you do it?
1:04.2	Well, I don't know. I'm registered to be an organ donor.
1:12.2	Is that kind of similar?
1:14.2	I think in some ways it is, right?
1:16.2	Because you have the same problem with people signing up, and in countries where it's automatic,
1:22.2	you're already on the organ donor registry unless you opt out.
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