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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 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1
In part one of our two-part episode on Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked phantasmagorical 1985 masterpiece Blood Meridian, David and Tamler talk about the historical sources of the novel, the cosmic questions the book poses, the capriciousness of the near-c...
Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality
David and Tamler return to the work of old favorite William James and argue about the 6th lecture (inspired by the French philosopher Henri Bergson) of his 1909 book “A Pluralistic Universe.” James attacks the philosophical habit of elevating unchanging ...
Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe
Last December, with Argentina minutes away from a World Cup championship, friend of the show Yoel texted David “congratulations.” David was furious, and soon after (with less than 2 minutes left in extra time) France’s Mbappe scored a game-tying goal to ...
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I love this podcast and these guys. The humour that cuts through the serious topics makes it so enjoyable.
Before the lawsuit happens
I’ve listened to many years on and off, but never left a review. Episodes like I Want to Half Believe are why I keep coming back. It’s a mix between going fairly deep in an interesting topic and a light harted discussion about inner lives. Coming from an engineering background, that seems the only way I can “learn” anything about philosophy or social sciences.
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Great podcast but the music is cringy I just had to say that
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