Episode 51: Zombies, Trolleys, and Galileo's Balls
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2014
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Episode Audio
Dave and Tamler talk about the value and purposes of thought experiments in philosophy and science. Does the trolley problem tell us more about moral psychology than how people make judgments in
trolley problems? Can an imagined scenario about two balls refute an almost two thousand year old theory of falling objects? When young virgin Dave learned all the physical facts about sex, did he learn
anything new when it finally happened? All this and more in Part One of our two part episode on this topic.
Links
The experience machine [wikipedia.org]
Mary the color scientist [wikipedia.org]
Zombies [wikipedia.org]
Qualia [wikipedia.org]
The Violinist from "A defense of Abortion" [wikipedia.org]
The Ship of Theseus [wikipedia.org]
Newcomb's Paradox [wikipedia.org]
Ring of Gyges [wikipedia.org]
Peter Singer's thought experiment [wikipedia.org]
Veil of Ignorance [wikipedia.org]
Galileo's Balls [philosophical-investigations.org]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.1 | having an informal discussion about issues and science 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 | There's not such thing as psychology, it's all made up crap. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't really. Yeah. Just remember that when they're telling you how screwed up you are. |
| 0:23.6 | Okay. |
| 0:24.4 | And let me tell you something else. |
| 0:26.5 | Astronomy is BS2. |
| 0:31.0 | The lady on his phone fan. |
| 0:35.0 | They do 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 man. |
| 0:55.0 | They think he's lost, and with no more rains than you have. |
| 0:59.0 | They know our attention. |
| 1:01.0 | Can I fan? |
| 1:05.0 | Anybody can have a brain? |
| 1:09.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:12.0 | They're a very good man. |
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