Episode 40: How Many Moralities Are There? Pt. 2 (with Jesse Graham)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Graham joins us for part 2 of our discussion on the nature of morality, and his recent paper on Moral Foundations Theory. He highlights the key components of MFT, defends himself against our accusations of weaseling out of the normative implications of MFT, champions "Synechdoche, New York" as one of the greatest films ever made, and comes out of the closet as a rationalist. Also in this episode, Tamler begins to defend Sam Harris (you read that right) from Dan Dennett's criticisms of Harris' Free Will--and then we pull back and realize that we need to devote a whole episode to Dennett's review.

Links

Dan Dennett's review of "Free Will" by Sam Harris [naturalism.org]
Free Will by Sam Harris [amazon.com affiliate link]
Jesse Graham's lab website [usc.edu]
Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism by Jesse Graham et al.
Synechdoche, New York (RIP Phllip Seymour Hoffman!)

Special Guest: Jesse Graham.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:16.8	Being fooled, sacrilegious, no that's tough. I'm not sacrilegious, I was all the boy.
0:20.4	If I'm not, I couldn't be poop as a fucker.
0:25.2	I'm not gonna sit in the back of heaven.
0:30.0	Look, ladies, arms, hips, focus.
0:34.5	Way to audition till I've been behind the curtain.
0:43.3	Who are you?
0:45.4	Who are you?
0:47.0	I'm very bad man.
0:48.4	I'm a very good man.
0:49.8	Good man.
0:55.4	Welcome to very bad wizards.
0:56.8	I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University at Duke right now.
0:59.8	Where we have a snow day.
1:00.9	Tamler, this is our 40th episode, which is equal to the amount of years the Jews were wandering
1:06.0	in the wilderness.
1:07.0	Do you ever feel like we've just been wandering for 40 episodes?
1:10.2	All the time. In fact, there are a lot of analogies.
1:13.2	One of them is how much we wander and meander and have a hard time getting to the point.
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