Episode 60: Drunk on Intuitions
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2015
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Dave and Tamler argue some more about the role of emotion and intuition in blame judgments, and then offer some moral psychology-related recommendations for your New Year's viewing and reading pleasure. Plus, can you turn listening to VBW into a good drinking game? Offer some suggestions and win a free Very Bad Wizards T-shirt!
Links
- Tamler's early defense of free will skepticism:
- "Darrow and Determinism" [naturalism.org]
- "No Soul? I Can Live with That. No Free Will? AHHHHH!!!" [psychologytoday.org]
- "Free Will Skepticism in Action" [naturalism.org]
- Tamler's interview with Galen Strawson [believermag.org]
- The Objective Attitude [philpapers.org]
- Daniel Miessler on Sam Harris vs. Very Bad Wizards [danielmiessler.com]
- The Sceptic by David Hume [econlib.org]
- Paul Russell's Free Will, Art, Morality [verybadwizards.com]
- Locke [imdb.com]
- The Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide by William James [erowid.org]
- Kahan, D. M., Peters, E., Dawson, E. C., & Slovic, P. (2013). Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government. Social Science Research Network. Available: http://ssrn. com/abstract, 2319992.
- Black Mirror [imdb.com]
- Snowpiercer [imdb.com]
- Snowpiercer-Left or Right [everyframeapainting.tumbler.com]
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth [amazon.com affiliate link]
- Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf. Princeton University. Press, 2010. [amazon.com affiliate link]
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. |
| 0:09.9 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, and knowing |
| 0:14.5 | my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:18.0 | Well, that went slightly better than the worst it could have possibly gone, so... |
| 0:25.0 | Hooray? |
| 0:26.0 | The cleaning of his philosophy. |
| 0:33.0 | Way to attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:38.0 | 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 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:53.0 | And with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:57.0 | Way to attention. |
| 0:58.0 | Come on, man. |
| 1:01.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:07.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:12.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
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