Episode 49: Psychopaths and Contrastivizzzzzzzz (With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Walter Sinnott-Armstrong joins the podcast to explain how his theory which desperately needs a new name ("contrastivism") can dissolve most of the fundamental problems and paradoxes in philosophy. We also talk about psychopaths--what they are and what we can do about them. But first we read and respond to an angry piece of fan mail (ok, maybe 'fan' is not the right word) from Sam Harris, trashing us--mostly Tamler--for our comments on VBW 45 about the new atheists.

Links

Sam Harris debates Andrew Sullivan [samharris.org]
Richard Dawkins on the harm of fairy tales (read until the end) [telegraph.co.uk]
Walter Sinnott-Armtrong's Home Page [duke.edu]
Sinnott‐Armstrong, W. (2008). A contrastivist manifesto. Social Epistemology, 22(3), 257-270.
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter. (2006) It's not my fault: Global warming and individual moral obligations. Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources 5, 285-307.
The Memory of Jurors: Enhancing Trial Performance by Anders Sandberg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Julian Savulescu.

Special Guest: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:06.1	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.5	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.8	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	I never wanted to be the type to think big thoughts about the nature of things.
0:23.2	The fading on has spoken.
0:28.2	A new attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:38.2	Who are you?
0:40.2	Who are you?
0:42.2	I'm very bad men.
0:43.2	I'm a very good man.
0:45.2	Good man.
0:49.2	They think these thoughts and we know more brains than you have.
0:53.2	They know our attention.
0:55.2	Come on, man.
0:59.2	Anybody can have a brain.
1:03.2	You're a very bad man.
1:06.2	They're a very good man.
1:07.2	Just a very bad wizard.
1:14.2	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:16.2	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:18.2	David, Michael LePresso.
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