Episode 63: Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2015
⏱️ 167 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris gets back in the VBW ring for another round on moral responsibility, ethical theories, and the grounds for our obligations to other people. Are we at a genuine stalemate when it comes to blame and desert? Is Tamler a closet consequentialist? Is Sam a closet pluralist? Why is Dave such a big Wagner fan? Plus, Twitter shaming: what is it good for? Settle in, get comfortable, pour yourself a drink, you're in for the long haul on this one.
Links
- How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life [nytimes.co]
- The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris [samharris.org]
- Value Pluralism [plato.stanford.edu]
- Bill Burr vs. Philly [youtube.com]
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.1 | 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 allowed to say, |
| 0:13.8 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.2 | I've tried to clear my way with logic and superior intellect, |
| 0:22.8 | but you've given my words a meaning that I never dreamed of. |
| 0:31.0 | The pain in life has fallen. |
| 0:35.0 | I know I'm tension to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:44.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:47.0 | I'm a very bad man. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:52.0 | Good man. |
| 0:55.0 | They think he's lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:59.0 | They do our attention. |
| 1:01.0 | Come on, man. |
| 1:05.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:09.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:11.0 | They're a very good man. |
| 1:13.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:20.0 | Dave, I just have this weird feeling that we're going to have a few more downloads for this episode |
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