Episode 56: Moral Heroes and Drunk Utilitarians

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Following up their discussion of moral villains, Dave and Tamler argue about what makes a moral hero. Tamler defends Sharon Krause’s view that honor values can motivate heroic behavior. Dave accuses Tamler of being inconsistent (nothing wrong with that) and slightly Kantian (NOOOOOO!!!). In the final segment, we’re back on the same page fawning over Susan Wolf’s paper “Moral Saints.” Plus, are drunks more likely to be utilitarians? And why does Dave hate Temple Grandin?

Links

The Cold Logic of Drunk People by Emma Green [theatlantic.com]
Duke, A. A., & Bègue, L. (2015). The drunk utilitarian: Blood alcohol concentration predicts utilitarian responses in moral dilemmas. Cognition, 134, 121-127. [sciencedirect.com]
Wolf, S. (1982). Moral saints. The Journal of Philosophy, 419-439. [verybadwizards.com]
Krause, S. R. (2002). Honor and democratic reform (Ch. 5) [verybadwizards.com]. In Liberalism with honor [amazon.com affiliate link]. Harvard University Press.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro, having
0:06.6	an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.8	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out allowed to say, and knowing
0:14.4	my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
1:00.0	You're a very bad man.
1:07.0	I'm a very good man.
1:10.0	Just a very bad wizard.
1:12.4	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:13.6	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:16.8	Dave, how'd you get to work today?
1:19.0	I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:20.7	I drove.
1:21.7	Oh, you drove?
1:22.7	Interesting.
1:23.7	Yeah.
1:24.7	See, I biked.
1:25.7	God.
1:26.7	I mean, I guess if you want to just stomp around and leave a heavy carbon footprint,
1:33.2	that's up to you.
1:34.2	But I just like to...
1:36.2	I just couldn't sit back and be a part of destroying the earth anymore.
1:40.6	Well, good for you.
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