Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Ethics • Philosophy • Psychology • Pop Culture • Literature Analysis • Film Discussions • Moral Philosophy • Cognitive Science • Existential Questions • Social Issues • Mysticism
This podcast, "Very Bad Wizards," features engaging discussions led by philosopher Tamler Sommers and psychologist David Pizarro, who delve into topics straddling moral philosophy, cognitive science, and pop culture. The episodes frequently explore deep philosophical questions such as the nature of good and evil, personal identity, and existentialist thought, often through the lens of literature and film. Notable themes include analyses of philosophical texts by figures like Nietzsche, Hume, and Tolstoy, as well as interpretations of novels, essays, and stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Haruki Murakami, and Cormac McCarthy.
The podcast also investigates various psychological studies, ranging from the misinterpretation of social cues and gender differences in language familiarity to research on cultural differences stemming from agriculture and the phenomenon of flow. Pop culture references are abundant, with extensive reviews of notable films such as "Oldboy," "No Country for Old Men," and works by directors like Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, all dissected for their philosophical and psychological implications.
Another recurring theme is the intersection of academic theories and real-life applications, such as the analysis of retributive justice, the ethics of sexual behavior, and the impact of new media on human interaction. Episodes often include critiques of contemporary issues such as cancel culture, political correctness, and the efficacy of diversity statements in academia. The hosts sometimes explore lighter topics, too, like the metaphysics of puns or creating new German words for common experiences.
Overall, "Very Bad Wizards" offers a blend of rigorous intellectual discourse and accessible commentary on both scholarly and mundane matters, making it a rich resource for those interested in the confluence of philosophy, psychology, and culture.
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Episodes:
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Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)
2024-Jun-25
91 minutes
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Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You
2024-Jun-11
132 minutes
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Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture
2024-May-28
85 minutes
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Episode 284: Reel Choices
2024-May-15
82 minutes
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Episode 283: When Elephants Podcast
2024-Apr-30
83 minutes
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Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass")
2024-Apr-16
85 minutes
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Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter
2024-Mar-26
82 minutes
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Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)
2024-Mar-12
99 minutes
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Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)
2024-Feb-27
69 minutes
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Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)
2024-Feb-13
92 minutes
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Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")
2024-Jan-30
95 minutes
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Episode 276: Attention Please
2024-Jan-16
87 minutes
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Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph")
2023-Dec-26
94 minutes
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Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)
2023-Dec-13
95 minutes
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Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")
2023-Nov-29
117 minutes
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Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay
2023-Nov-15
84 minutes
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Episode 271: Concept-Con 2023
2023-Nov-13
58 minutes
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Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)
2023-Oct-10
103 minutes
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Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2)
2023-Oct-10
91 minutes
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Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1
2023-Sep-12
77 minutes
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Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality
2023-Aug-22
72 minutes
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Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe
2023-Aug-08
82 minutes
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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)
2023-Jul-25
80 minutes
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[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine
2023-Jul-18
68 minutes
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Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")
2023-Jul-11
130 minutes
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Episode 263: Free Yoel
2023-Jun-27
95 minutes
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Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
2023-Jun-13
88 minutes
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Episode 261: Death of the Author
2023-May-30
82 minutes
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Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
2023-May-09
89 minutes
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Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)
2023-Apr-25
116 minutes
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Episode 258: Mystic Peeza
2023-Apr-11
93 minutes
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Episode 257: Aural Fixation
2023-Mar-28
99 minutes
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Episode 256: The Right to Punish?
2023-Mar-14
96 minutes
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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
2023-Feb-28
103 minutes
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Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit
2023-Feb-14
79 minutes
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Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild
2023-Jan-31
128 minutes
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Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can
2023-Jan-10
94 minutes
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Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos
2022-Dec-20
94 minutes
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Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down
2022-Dec-06
90 minutes
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Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
2022-Nov-22
85 minutes
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Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
2022-Nov-01
83 minutes
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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
2022-Oct-18
154 minutes
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Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
2022-Oct-04
106 minutes
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Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking
2022-Sep-20
91 minutes
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Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
2022-Sep-06
111 minutes
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Episode 243: Finding My Religion
2022-Aug-16
92 minutes
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Bonus Episode: The Ambulators (A "Deadwood" Podcast)
2022-Aug-09
90 minutes
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Episode 242: Losing My Religion
2022-Aug-02
93 minutes
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Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")
2022-Jul-19
155 minutes
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Episode 240: Evil
2022-Jul-06
93 minutes
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Episode 239: Lose Yourself
2022-Jun-21
83 minutes
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Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
2022-Jun-07
118 minutes
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Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit
2022-May-24
103 minutes
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Episode 236: Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)
2022-May-03
130 minutes
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Episode 235: Animated Objects
2022-Apr-19
111 minutes
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Episode 234: Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2)
2022-Apr-05
113 minutes
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Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)
2022-Mar-22
113 minutes
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Episode 232: Mind Over Matter
2022-Mar-08
99 minutes
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Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
2022-Feb-22
111 minutes
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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
2022-Feb-08
110 minutes
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Episode 229: Skin Deep?
2022-Jan-25
99 minutes
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Episode 228: Forever Jung
2022-Jan-11
93 minutes
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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
2021-Dec-21
98 minutes
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Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)
2021-Dec-07
116 minutes
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Episode 225: Forbidden Modules
2021-Nov-16
102 minutes
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Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)
2021-Nov-02
102 minutes
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Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")
2021-Oct-19
88 minutes
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Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind
2021-Oct-05
97 minutes
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Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords
2021-Sep-21
110 minutes
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Episode 220: On Your Marx
2021-Sep-07
110 minutes
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Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors
2021-Aug-17
105 minutes
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Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")
2021-Aug-03
119 minutes
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Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
2021-Jul-20
126 minutes
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Episode 216: Oral Judgments
2021-Jul-06
100 minutes
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Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey
2021-Jun-22
97 minutes
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Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)
2021-Jun-08
80 minutes
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Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)
2021-May-25
117 minutes
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Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)
2021-May-11
105 minutes
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Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
2021-Apr-20
106 minutes
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Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)
2021-Apr-06
121 minutes
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Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)
2021-Mar-23
96 minutes
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Episode 208: Dream Theater
2021-Mar-09
102 minutes
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Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray
2021-Feb-23
88 minutes
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Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")
2021-Feb-09
97 minutes
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Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
2021-Jan-26
92 minutes
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Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)
2021-Jan-12
96 minutes
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Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)
2020-Dec-22
94 minutes
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Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")
2020-Dec-08
91 minutes
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Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People
2020-Nov-24
116 minutes
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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular
2020-Nov-03
104 minutes
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Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways
2020-Oct-20
99 minutes
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Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")
2020-Oct-06
92 minutes
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Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life
2020-Sep-22
112 minutes
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Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy
2020-Sep-08
109 minutes
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Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")
2020-Aug-25
115 minutes
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Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)
2020-Aug-11
113 minutes
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Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")
2020-Jul-21
88 minutes
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Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")
2020-Jul-07
96 minutes
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Episode 191: All the Rage
2020-Jun-23
96 minutes
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Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)
2020-Jun-09
121 minutes
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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
2020-May-26
97 minutes
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Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
2020-May-12
102 minutes
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Episode 187: More Zither
2020-Apr-21
100 minutes
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Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer
2020-Apr-07
89 minutes
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Episode 185: The Devil's Playground
2020-Mar-24
85 minutes
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Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters
2020-Mar-17
86 minutes
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Episode 184: Tainted Glove
2020-Mar-10
85 minutes
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Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
2020-Feb-25
99 minutes
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Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
2020-Feb-11
118 minutes
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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
2020-Jan-28
129 minutes
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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
2020-Jan-14
116 minutes
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Episode 179: Talking Shit
2019-Dec-24
123 minutes
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Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")
2019-Dec-10
100 minutes
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Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
2019-Nov-26
124 minutes
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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
2019-Nov-12
108 minutes
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Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
2019-Oct-29
102 minutes
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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
2019-Oct-15
106 minutes
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Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]
2019-Oct-01
100 minutes
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Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?
2019-Sep-17
100 minutes
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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)
2019-Aug-27
91 minutes
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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
2019-Aug-13
109 minutes
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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
2019-Jul-30
110 minutes
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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)
2019-Jul-16
93 minutes
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Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)
2019-Jul-03
68 minutes
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Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
2019-Jun-18
109 minutes
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Episode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)
2019-Jun-04
136 minutes
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Episode 164: Choosing to Believe
2019-May-14
81 minutes
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Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
2019-May-01
94 minutes
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Episode 162: Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)
2019-Apr-16
86 minutes
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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
2019-Apr-02
85 minutes
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Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes
2019-Mar-19
93 minutes
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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison
2019-Mar-05
75 minutes
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Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity
2019-Feb-19
96 minutes
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Episode 157: Notes From Underground (Pt. 2)
2019-Feb-05
81 minutes
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Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)
2019-Jan-22
103 minutes
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Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot
2019-Jan-08
98 minutes
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Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")
2018-Dec-18
116 minutes
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Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart
2018-Dec-04
106 minutes
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Episode 152: Ruthlessness, Public and Private
2018-Nov-20
81 minutes
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Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")
2018-Nov-06
124 minutes
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Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots
2018-Oct-23
86 minutes
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Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps
2018-Oct-02
101 minutes
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Episode 148: Am I Wrong?
2018-Sep-19
101 minutes
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Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)
2018-Sep-04
103 minutes
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Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)
2018-Aug-21
72 minutes
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Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden
2018-Aug-07
97 minutes
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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon
2018-Jul-24
83 minutes
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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
2018-Jul-10
99 minutes
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Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)
2018-Jun-26
90 minutes
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Episode 141: Implicit Bias
2018-Jun-05
81 minutes
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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice
2018-May-22
93 minutes
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Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts
2018-May-12
91 minutes
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Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2018-Apr-24
105 minutes
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Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols)
2018-Apr-10
79 minutes
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Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)
2018-Mar-27
92 minutes
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Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity
2018-Mar-13
76 minutes
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Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)
2018-Feb-27
111 minutes
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Episode 133: Death and Dreams
2018-Feb-06
75 minutes
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Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)
2018-Jan-23
95 minutes
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Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream
2018-Jan-09
99 minutes
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Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)
2017-Dec-26
92 minutes
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Episode 129: Dystopias
2017-Dec-12
105 minutes
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Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)
2017-Nov-28
110 minutes
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Episode 127: Moral Luck
2017-Nov-14
84 minutes
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Episode 126: The Absurd
2017-Oct-24
92 minutes
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Episode 125: Can You Feel It?
2017-Oct-10
92 minutes
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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life
2017-Sep-26
81 minutes
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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)
2017-Sep-12
87 minutes
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Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)
2017-Aug-29
100 minutes
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Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"
2017-Aug-15
89 minutes
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Episode 120: Clap Your Hand for Robert Wright
2017-Jul-25
107 minutes
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Episode 119: A Brief History of Values
2017-Jul-12
86 minutes
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Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax
2017-Jun-28
72 minutes
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Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins
2017-Jun-13
71 minutes
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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises
2017-May-31
76 minutes
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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?
2017-May-16
97 minutes
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Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)
2017-May-04
81 minutes
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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks
2017-Apr-18
78 minutes
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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles
2017-Apr-04
91 minutes
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Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)
2017-Mar-22
63 minutes
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Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)
2017-Mar-14
41 minutes
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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube
2017-Feb-28
71 minutes
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Episode 108: The Gimp Exception
2017-Feb-07
74 minutes
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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)
2017-Jan-24
81 minutes
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Episode 106: American Grandstand
2017-Jan-10
77 minutes
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Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes
2016-Dec-28
83 minutes
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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
2016-Dec-14
93 minutes
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Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias
2016-Nov-29
67 minutes
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Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue
2016-Nov-15
97 minutes
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Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too
2016-Nov-01
88 minutes
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Episode 100: It's a Celebration
2016-Oct-13
98 minutes
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Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot
2016-Sep-27
123 minutes
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Episode 98: Mind the Gap
2016-Sep-13
82 minutes
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Episode 97: Dogmatic Slumber Party
2016-Aug-30
83 minutes
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Episode 96: Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom)
2016-Aug-16
86 minutes
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Bonus Episode: More Doobie-ous Theories About "Mr. Robot" (Season 2)
2016-Aug-09
29 minutes
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Episode 95: The Repugnance of Repugnance
2016-Aug-02
88 minutes
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Episode 94: Buttery Friendships
2016-Jul-19
96 minutes
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Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)
2016-Jul-05
99 minutes
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Episode 92: Jonathan Edwards' Basement
2016-Jun-21
68 minutes
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Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines
2016-Jun-07
84 minutes
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Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals
2016-May-25
80 minutes
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Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)
2016-May-10
97 minutes
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Episode 88: A Doobie for Elijah
2016-Apr-26
80 minutes
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Episode 87: Lucky You (with Robert Frank)
2016-Apr-12
79 minutes
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Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment
2016-Mar-22
74 minutes
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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
2016-Mar-12
69 minutes
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Episode 84: Lifting the Veil
2016-Feb-23
93 minutes
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Episode 83: Ego Trip
2016-Feb-09
61 minutes
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Episode 82: Totalitarian Slide-Rulers
2016-Jan-26
65 minutes
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Episode 81: Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar)
2016-Jan-12
107 minutes
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Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)
2015-Dec-21
100 minutes
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Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)
2015-Dec-04
107 minutes
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Episode 78: Wizards Uprising
2015-Nov-24
68 minutes
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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
2015-Nov-09
80 minutes
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Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes
2015-Oct-26
62 minutes
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Episode 75: A Golden Shower of Guests
2015-Oct-06
149 minutes
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Episode 74: Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison
2015-Sep-16
113 minutes
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Episode 73: Authentic Apes and Infinite Torture
2015-Aug-12
68 minutes
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Episode 72: Tweenie Turing Tests, AI, and Ex Machina (with Joshua Weisberg)
2015-Jul-28
92 minutes
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Episode 71: The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot"
2015-Jul-14
66 minutes
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Episode 70: Some Favorite Things
2015-Jun-29
94 minutes
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Episode 69: CHiPs on Our Shoulders (Lessons in Objectivity)
2015-Jun-17
93 minutes
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Episode 68: Risky, Reckless, and Regretful
2015-Jun-01
74 minutes
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Episode 67: Funny How?
2015-May-18
77 minutes
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Episode 66: Übermensch at Work
2015-Apr-20
84 minutes
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Episode 65: Philocalypse Now
2015-Apr-06
79 minutes
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Episode 64: Believing in a Just World
2015-Mar-19
73 minutes
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Episode 63: Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris)
2015-Feb-28
166 minutes
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Episode 62: Brain Jizz and "Black Mirror"
2015-Feb-09
61 minutes
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Episode 61: Putting a Little Meaning in Your Life
2015-Jan-19
75 minutes
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Episode 60: Drunk on Intuitions
2015-Jan-02
72 minutes
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Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
2014-Dec-16
152 minutes
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Episode 58: Do the Right Thing (with Yoel Inbar)
2014-Dec-02
90 minutes
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Episode 57: Free Willie
2014-Nov-18
45 minutes
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Episode 56: Moral Heroes and Drunk Utilitarians
2014-Nov-03
70 minutes
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Episode 55: Rooting for Evil (With Paul Bloom)
2014-Oct-21
78 minutes
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Episode 54: Pooping on Ecstasy (Pain, Pleasure, and the Ethics of Breeding)
2014-Sep-24
77 minutes
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Episode 53: The Psychology People Love to Hate (Evolutionary Psychology Pt.1)
2014-Sep-08
75 minutes
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Episode 52: Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2)
2014-Aug-25
76 minutes
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Episode 51: Zombies, Trolleys, and Galileo's Balls
2014-Aug-12
78 minutes
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Episode 50: Keeping it Unreal
2014-Jul-15
87 minutes
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Episode 49: Psychopaths and Contrastivizzzzzzzz (With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
2014-Jun-23
103 minutes
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Episode 48: Restorative Circle Jerk
2014-Jun-09
68 minutes
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Episode 47: Schooled By Our Listeners
2014-May-22
62 minutes
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Episode 46: The Real Josh Knobe
2014-May-05
64 minutes
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Episode 45: Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets"
2014-Apr-21
68 minutes
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Episode 44: Killer Robots
2014-Apr-05
68 minutes
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Episode 43: The Nature of Nudges
2014-Mar-17
50 minutes
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Episode 42: Reason, Responsibility, and Roombas (With Paul Bloom)
2014-Mar-03
67 minutes
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Episode 41: Moral Dilemmas at the Movies
2014-Feb-19
97 minutes
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Episode 40: How Many Moralities Are There? Pt. 2 (with Jesse Graham)
2014-Feb-03
79 minutes
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Episode 39: How Many Moralities Are There? (Pt.1)
2014-Jan-20
59 minutes
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Episode 38: The Greatest Movies Ever Made about Personal Identity
2013-Dec-31
81 minutes
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Episode 37: Porn, Poop, and Personal Identity (with Nina Strohminger)
2013-Dec-17
45 minutes
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Episode 36: An Irresponsible Meta-Book Review of Joshua Greene's "Moral Tribes"
2013-Nov-25
55 minutes
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Episode 35: Douchebags and Desert
2013-Nov-11
61 minutes
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Episode 34: Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson)
2013-Oct-28
74 minutes
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Episode 33: Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos)
2013-Oct-14
57 minutes
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Episode 32: Disagreeing About Disagreement
2013-Sep-30
78 minutes
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Episode 31: An Anthropologist's Guide to Moral Psychology (Pt. 1)
2013-Sep-16
54 minutes
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Episode 30: The Greatest Books Ever Written
2013-Sep-02
71 minutes
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Episode 29: PEDs, Tenure Pills, and "Hyberbolic Chambers"
2013-Aug-19
47 minutes
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Episode 28: Moral Persuasion
2013-Aug-05
69 minutes
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Episode 27: You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
2013-Jul-22
82 minutes
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Episode 26: Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering)
2013-Jul-08
81 minutes
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Episode 25: Burning Armchairs (with Joshua Knobe)
2013-Jun-24
58 minutes
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Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
2013-Jun-10
83 minutes
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Episode 23: Straw Dogs (with Yoel Inbar)
2013-May-27
76 minutes
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Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness
2013-May-12
64 minutes
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Episode 21: Grad School
2013-May-06
93 minutes
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Episode 20: Boston, Brains, and Bad Pronunciation (with Molly Crockett)
2013-Apr-21
60 minutes
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Episode 19: The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 2)
2013-Apr-06
63 minutes
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Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
2013-Mar-22
49 minutes
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Episode 17: Learning about Bushmen by Studying Freshmen?
2013-Mar-16
50 minutes
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Episode 16: Race, Reparations, and American (In)Justice (with Damani McDole)
2013-Mar-02
60 minutes
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Episode 15: The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 1)
2013-Feb-16
53 minutes
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Episode 14: Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers
2013-Feb-08
27 minutes
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Episode 13: Beanballs, Blood Feuds, and Collective Moral Responsibility (With Fiery Cushman)
2013-Jan-22
60 minutes
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Episode 12: Justice for #!$@ ?
2013-Jan-14
73 minutes
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Episode 11: It is Morally Wrong to Kill Morgan Freeman (with Yoel Inbar)
2012-Dec-28
75 minutes
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Episode 10: Religion, Meaning, and Morality
2012-Dec-11
58 minutes
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Episode 9: Social Psychology, Situationism, and Moral Character
2012-Dec-03
68 minutes
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Episode 8: Dishonesty, Character, and Dan Ariely
2012-Nov-12
71 minutes
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Episode 7: Psychopaths and Utilitarians Pt. 2 (Now with more poo poo)
2012-Nov-04
67 minutes
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Episode 6: Trolleys, Utilitarians, and Psychopaths (Part 1)
2012-Oct-20
61 minutes
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Episode 5: Revenge, Pt. 2: The Revenge
2012-Oct-08
65 minutes
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Episode 4: Revenge, Pt. 1
2012-Sep-20
51 minutes
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Episode 3: "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth)
2012-Sep-08
61 minutes
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Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)
2012-Sep-01
73 minutes
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Episode 1: Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1)
2012-Aug-30
70 minutes
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