Episode 25: Burning Armchairs (with Joshua Knobe)
24 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Knobe, the Michael Corleone of experimental philosophy, joins us to talk about taking philosoph...
Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
10 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a ...
Episode 23: Straw Dogs (with Yoel Inbar)
27 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dave, Tamler, and special guest Yoel Inbar break down Sam Peckinpah's brilliant (at least according ...
Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness
12 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his dat...
Episode 21: Grad School
06 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Tamler shrug off inside baseball concerns and argue whether to go to grad school, what to d...
Episode 20: Boston, Brains, and Bad Pronunciation (with Molly Crockett)
21 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Tamler begin with a brief, heartfelt discussion about the Boston Bombings. Tamler talks a...
Episode 19: The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 2)
06 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Re-recording a not-so-tragically lost episode (it kinda sucked), Dave and Tamler talk about the thin...
Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
22 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to ...
Episode 17: Learning about Bushmen by Studying Freshmen?
16 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of studies in psychology rely on data from North American undergraduates. Can we really co...
Episode 16: Race, Reparations, and American (In)Justice (with Damani McDole)
02 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
For those who thought our most uncomfortable topics were behind us, on this episode we are joined by...
Episode 15: The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 1)
16 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You don't need to be a psychologist or a philosopher to enjoy a good, old-fashioned bitch-fest. In t...
Episode 14: Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In a break from tradition, we recorded a 25-minute episode on the morality of tattletaling, snitchin...
Episode 13: Beanballs, Blood Feuds, and Collective Moral Responsibility (With Fiery Cushman)
22 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Our classiest episode yet (OK, that's not saying much, but still...)--Psychologist Fiery Cushman joi...
Episode 12: Justice for #!$@ ?
14 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Tamler square off the role of the victim in criminal punishment and find little to agree ab...
Episode 11: It is Morally Wrong to Kill Morgan Freeman (with Yoel Inbar)
28 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Social psychologist Yoel Inbar joins Tamler and David to discuss Clint Eastwood's masterpiece of the...
Episode 10: Religion, Meaning, and Morality
11 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Does life have meaning if there is no God? Why should I be a good person if there's no reward or pun...
Episode 9: Social Psychology, Situationism, and Moral Character
03 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After discussing some listener feedback about the movie Swingers, Tamler and David talk about two cl...
Episode 8: Dishonesty, Character, and Dan Ariely
12 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In a Very Special Episode of Very Bad Wizards, Dan Ariely joins David to chat about cheating, charac...
Episode 7: Psychopaths and Utilitarians Pt. 2 (Now with more poo poo)
04 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After a clip from The Third Man, Dave and Tamler continue their discussion from Episode 6 on Ted Bun...
Episode 6: Trolleys, Utilitarians, and Psychopaths (Part 1)
20 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tamler contemplates ending it all because he can't get 'Call Me Maybe' out of his head, and Dave doe...
Episode 5: Revenge, Pt. 2: The Revenge
08 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Tamler continue their discussion about their favorite topic. They talk about the evolutio...
Episode 4: Revenge, Pt. 1
20 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dave allows Tamler to rant about Sam Harris's strawman attacks on moral relativism before launching ...
Episode 3: "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth)
08 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tamler and Dave discuss recent work in philosophy and psychology about the differences in moral valu...
Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)
01 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tamler and David discuss whether giving up our belief in free will makes us more likely to abandon o...
Episode 1: Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1)
30 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Tamler start out talking about the new wave of skepticism about free will and moral respons...