Episode 47: Schooled By Our Listeners
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2014
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Tamler and David leech off of their listeners and dedicate an episode to their favorite comments, questions, and criticisms from the past few weeks (but not before Tamler goes on a rant about bicycle helmets). Included in this episode: Does doing research on hypothetical moral dilemmas actually say anything about how people would act in real life? Do people make different moral judgments in their native language than in a more recently acquired language? Do Tamler and David only appeal to intuitions when it's convenient for the view they are defending? Do they hold "barbaric" views about justice and revenge? Does doing philosophy make your life better? And, perhaps most importantly, why do we seem to mention porn on every episode?
Links
- Bicycle helmet effectiveness [wikipedia.org]
- Tamler's appearance on The Partially Examined Life podcast [partiallyexaminedlife.com]
- Axons and Axioms podcast [axonsandaxioms.com]
- Spacetime Mind podcast [spacetimemind.com]
- A valuable site if you're interested in putting together your own podcast: Dan Benjamin's Podcasting Handbook [podcastinghandbook.co]
- If you like the music we use, you can listen/download here: soundcloud.com/peezismyname
- Pea Soup Blog [peasoup.typepad.com]
- Qualia [wikipedia.org]
- Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" [wikipedia.org]
- Entranced by Reality by Ian Corbin (Review of "A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning" by Robert Zaretsky). [theamericanconservative.com]
- Iranian killer's execution halted at last minute by victim's parents by Saeed Kamali Dehghan [theguardian.com]
Academic Articles Mentioned
- Bartels, Daniel M. (2008), "Principled Moral Sentiment and the Flexibility of Moral Judgment and Decision Making," Cognition, 108, 381-417. [uchicago.edu]
- Costa, A., Foucart, A., Hayakawa, S., Aparici, M., Apesteguia, J., Heafner, J., & Keysar, B. (2014). Your Morals Depend on Language. PloS one, 9(4), e94842. [plosone.org]
- Gold, N., Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2014). Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems. Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 65-76. [sjdm.org]
Special thanks to listeners (in order of question-appearance) Jakub Maly, Mark Ellis, Derek Leben, Jennifer Cohen, Rob Sica, Larson Landes, Billie Pritchett, Dave Herman, Otakar Horak, Monique Oliveira, Paul Bello, and Dag Soras.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro, having |
| 0:06.8 | an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. |
| 0:10.2 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, and knowing |
| 0:14.6 | my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.6 | What the fuck you talk about man, let's go get big fame man, cash money to you man. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome to very bad wizards I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:14.4 | Dave, a listener Jacob Malley, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, asked us if we ever |
| 1:20.5 | noticed that we mentioned porn in one way or another in every episode. |
| 1:24.9 | Why do you think we do that? |
| 1:26.5 | I didn't really notice it's sort of like a fish not noticing water, but I do know this. |
| 1:33.6 | Thank you for writing that in so that we could include a reference to porn as part of our |
| 1:38.1 | email episode. |
| 1:39.1 | Well, I imagine it would have come up anyway, but given that we have the streak. |
| 1:47.6 | I think it's just very relevant, you know, I think it's like when you have a hitting |
| 1:52.0 | streak in baseball, it's good to get it out of the way early so you don't have to, the |
| 1:55.9 | pressure doesn't build. |
| 1:56.9 | And the pressure definitely builds. |
| 2:03.1 | Nice one. |
| 2:04.1 | Thank you. |
| 2:05.1 | Did I mention who I was? |
| 2:06.1 | And I think you did and I didn't say I'm Dave Pizarro from Cornell University, still at Duke |
| 2:10.8 | University. |
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