Episode 42: Reason, Responsibility, and Roombas (With Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Can a fully determined creature deliberate? How big a role does conscious reasoning play in moral judgment and everyday life? Are we responsible for our thoughts and actions? Paul Bloom rejoins us against his better judgment to discuss his book "Just Babies" and his recent article in The Atlantic that set the internet on the fire and riled up the likes of Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne. Plus, what's the difference (if any) between getting into a Star Trek transporter and getting an axe to the head, and why does David know so much about boy bands?
Links
- Just Babies by Paul Bloom [amazon.com-vbw affiliate link]
- The War on Reason by Paul Bloom [theatlantic.com]
- Jerry Coyne replies to Paul Bloom's Article [whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com]
- Bloom replies to Coyne [whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com]
Tamler is the only one who realized he has a face for radio.
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.0 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.3 | I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. |
| 0:25.4 | And I'm all out of bubble gum. |
| 0:27.4 | Oh, shit. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm waiting on his phone, and I need your attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:44.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:51.0 | Good. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 0:55.0 | Dave, thanks to Paul Bloom, our listening audience is growing. |
| 0:59.0 | How do you feel about advertising for condoms on our podcast? |
| 1:03.0 | As long as we advertise for our very own very bad wizard condoms with a little monkey on them |
| 1:09.0 | and made really cheaply in China so that lots of babies will get made on our watch. |
| 1:13.0 | We want to have like a survey soon, like a listener survey. |
| 1:16.0 | I think we should ask one of the questions should be, what synth should the very bad wizard condoms? |
| 1:20.0 | Should they be ribbed or... |
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