Episode 39: How Many Moralities Are There? (Pt.1)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2014
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dave and Tamler bounce back this week after having to trash the last episode. Does morality ultimately boil down to a single principle (such as harm or justice), or is there more to ethical life than is dreamt of in the minds of philosophers? We settle this question once and for all in the first of a 2-part episode in which we discuss Jesse Graham et al's recent paper on Moral Foundations Theory. (Jesse Graham himself will join us for part 2). Plus: how liberal is this podcast? We'll give you the precise percentage after taking a Time.com quiz that purports to measure political leanings, (and which includes that perennial litmus test of political preferences: is it OK to come home and find your partner watching porn?)
Links
- Can TIME predict your politics? [science.time.com]
- Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism Foundations Theory (in press, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology) by Graham, J. et al [usc.edu]
- Old School [imdb.com]
- "Boy, I've Put You in a Really Tough Spot, Haven't I?" by Woody Allen [onion.com]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.5 | having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. |
| 0:10.1 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of loud to say, and knowing |
| 0:14.7 | my dad, some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.7 | The episode was a last one to get a host was. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards, I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 0:54.9 | Dave, we fucked up our last episode. |
| 0:57.1 | We had to trash it. |
| 0:58.3 | Whose fault was that? |
| 0:59.3 | Yours or mine? |
| 1:00.3 | Those are the only two options. |
| 1:02.2 | I blame society, society is keeping us down. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, no, I think that's right. |
| 1:11.0 | Society and just the social structure that just really punishes white heterosexual man. |
| 1:20.2 | And the Jews especially. |
| 1:21.8 | And the Jews, Jesus. |
| 1:22.8 | This is what I get for aligning myself. |
| 1:25.4 | No. |
| 1:26.4 | It was the deal with the last episode, and we apologize about that. |
| 1:30.5 | We listened to it, and it was shockingly boring. |
| 1:34.9 | I don't think there was a single funny thing that we said the entire episode. |
| 1:40.8 | We were talking about a great paper, but we couldn't make it interesting or fun to talk |
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