Very Bad Wizards

By Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.

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Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey
1:37:51
2.
Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)
1:20:41
3.
Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)
1:57:48
4.
Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)
1:45:10
5.
Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
1:46:06
6.
Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)
2:01:08
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Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)
1:36:56
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Episode 208: Dream Theater
1:40:23

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Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray
1:28:35
10.
Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")
1:37:52
11.
Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
1:32:57
12.
Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)
1:36:41
13.
Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)
1:34:57
14.
Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")
1:31:35
15.
Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People
1:56:51
16.
Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular
1:44:35
17.
Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways
1:39:43
18.
Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")
1:32:15
19.
Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life
1:52:49
20.
Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy
1:49:58
21.
Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")
1:55:32
22.
Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)
1:53:33
23.
Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")
1:28:15
24.
Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")
1:36:53
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Episode 191: All the Rage
1:36:56
26.
Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)
2:01:26
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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
1:37:41
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Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
1:42:24
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Episode 187: More Zither
1:40:37
30.
Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer
1:29:40
31.
Episode 185: The Devil's Playground
1:24:59
32.
Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters
1:26:36
33.
Episode 184: Tainted Glove
1:25:14
34.
Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
1:39:19
35.
Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
1:58:10
36.
Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
2:09:01
37.
Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
1:56:13
38.
Episode 179: Talking Shit
2:03:24
39.
Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")
1:40:54
40.
Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
2:04:58
41.
Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
1:48:23
42.
Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
1:42:34
43.
Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
1:46:29
44.
Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]
1:40:08
45.
Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?
1:40:42
46.
Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)
1:31:41
47.
Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
1:49:34
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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
1:50:07
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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)
1:33:15
50.
Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)
1:08:12

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