Episode 46: The Real Josh Knobe
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2014
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
May I have your attention please? Will the real Josh Knobe please stand up? Will the real... [you know what, screw this--we're just dating ourselves.] X-phi phenom Josh Knobe rejoins the podcast to talk about the true self, naked people, gay preachers, and the Talmud. Plus, what happens when Tamler takes a sleeping pill by mistake in the afternoon and goes on Facebook? Why do you have get so drunk on Purim? And Dave discovers a Google-assisted loophole that allows you to be an immoral shit your whole life and get away with it.
Links
- Joshua Knobe's home page [yale.edu]
- XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders [amazon.com affiliate link]
- Gray, K., Knobe, J., Sheskin, M., Bloom, P., & Barrett, L. F. (2011). More than a body: mind perception and the nature of objectification. Journal of personality and social psychology, 101, 1207. [yale.edu]
- Moral Scrupulosity [wikipedia.org]
- Newman, G. E., Bloom, P., & Knobe, J. (2014). Value Judgments and the True Self. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 203-216. [verybadwizards.com]
- Frankfurt on the Hierarchical Will: Frankfurt, H. G. (1988). Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person (pp. 127-144). Humana Press. [verybadwizards.com]
- "Tarred and Feathered" episode of "This American Life," covering a man who started a support group to keep pedophiles from victimizing children. [thisamericanlife.org]
- Purim [wikipedia.org]
- Simchat Torah [wikipedia.org]
- Pizarro, D.A., Uhlmann, E., & Salovey, P. (2003). Asymmetry in judgments of moral blame and praise: The role of perceived metadesires. Psychological Science, 14, 267-272. [peezer.net]
- Cohen, A. B., & Rozin, P. (2001). Religion and the morality of mentality. Journal of personality and social psychology, 81, 697. [upenn.edu]
- Newman, G. E., Lockhart, K. L., & Keil, F. C. (2010). “End-of-life†biases in moral evaluations of others. Cognition, 115, 343-349. [yale.edu]
Stupid Sexy Flanders!
Special Guest: Joshua Knobe.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and 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 not allowed to say, and knowing |
| 0:14.7 | my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:18.3 | Doing stuff is overrated. |
| 0:19.3 | Like Hitler, he did a lot, but don't we all wish he would have just stayed home and |
| 0:23.0 | gotten the stone? |
| 0:30.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:32.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:36.0 | Good man. |
| 0:37.0 | They think things are lost, and we know more brains than you have. |
| 0:40.0 | Way to our attention. |
| 0:41.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:43.0 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:45.0 | Good man. |
| 0:46.0 | Good man. |
| 0:47.0 | They think things are lost, and we know more brains than you have. |
| 0:52.0 | Way to our attention. |
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