Very Bad Wizards

Very Bad Wizards

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.

Episodes

Title Duration Published Consumed
Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe 01:20:38 2024-12-10 17:49
Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find") 01:41:24 2024-11-26 15:00
Episode 296: The Other CRT 01:03:23 2024-11-12 16:55
Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 01:33:58 2024-10-29 16:49
Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction) 01:13:30 2024-10-08 17:19
Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins") 01:25:33 2024-09-24 18:45
Episode 292: Boundary Issues 01:15:17 2024-09-10 19:06
Episode 291: Shoe Shining 02:12:12 2024-08-27 18:40
Episode 290: Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2) 01:37:16 2024-08-06 16:51
Episode 289: Shadows on the Wall (Plato's Cave Pt. 1) 01:12:18 2024-07-23 17:53
Episode 288: The Despised Foot (The Denial of Death Pt. 2) 01:30:05 2024-07-09 21:20
Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1) 01:31:06 2024-06-25 21:56
Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You 02:12:47 2024-06-11 20:58
Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture 01:25:44 2024-05-29 00:46
Episode 284: Reel Choices 01:22:34 2024-05-15 19:54
Episode 283: When Elephants Podcast 01:23:53 2024-04-30 20:29
Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass") 01:25:12 2024-04-16 20:36
Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter 01:22:42 2024-03-26 22:55
Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel) 01:39:37 2024-03-12 20:12
Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2) 01:09:58 2024-02-27 14:56
Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1) 01:32:17 2024-02-13 23:10
Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion") 01:35:32 2024-01-30 23:42
Episode 276: Attention Please 01:27:24 2024-01-16 19:19
Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph") 01:34:16 2023-12-26 21:58
Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc) 01:35:02 2023-12-13 18:24
Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away") 01:57:51 2023-11-29 14:24
Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay 01:24:38 2023-11-15 01:41
Episode 271: Concept-Con 2023 00:58:53 2023-11-13 17:24
Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3) 01:43:26 2023-10-11 01:14
Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2) 01:31:42 2023-10-10 21:53
Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1 01:17:21 2023-09-12 21:40
Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality 01:12:52 2023-08-22 21:31
Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe 01:22:56 2023-08-08 19:51
Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!) 01:20:23 2023-07-25 22:47
[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine 01:08:52 2023-07-18 14:00
Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men") 02:10:50 2023-07-11 20:45
Episode 263: Free Yoel 01:35:05 2023-06-27 23:21
Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil") 01:28:48 2023-06-13 22:25
Episode 261: Death of the Author 01:22:32 2023-05-30 20:06
Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep") 01:29:12 2023-05-09 18:00
Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom) 01:56:38 2023-04-25 23:00
Episode 258: Mystic Peeza 01:33:42 2023-04-11 16:00
Episode 257: Aural Fixation 01:39:39 2023-03-28 21:30
Episode 256: The Right to Punish? 01:36:50 2023-03-14 20:30
Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi") 01:43:52 2023-02-28 20:30
Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit 01:19:50 2023-02-14 22:00
Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild 02:08:15 2023-01-31 20:00
Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can 01:34:10 2023-01-11 00:30
Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos 01:34:09 2022-12-20 23:00
Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down 01:30:42 2022-12-06 20:00
Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic") 01:25:02 2022-11-22 23:45
Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper 01:23:12 2022-11-01 18:45
Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris) 02:34:31 2022-10-18 17:00
Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram") 01:46:20 2022-10-04 21:45
Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking 01:31:46 2022-09-20 20:45
Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious) 01:51:10 2022-09-06 23:30
Episode 243: Finding My Religion 01:32:49 2022-08-16 21:45
Bonus Episode: The Ambulators (A "Deadwood" Podcast) 01:30:19 2022-08-09 22:30
Episode 242: Losing My Religion 01:33:14 2022-08-02 22:15
Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut") 02:35:17 2022-07-19 22:30
Episode 240: Evil 01:33:56 2022-07-06 02:00
Episode 239: Lose Yourself 01:23:28 2022-06-21 17:30
Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I? 01:58:28 2022-06-07 22:45
Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit 01:43:19 2022-05-24 22:30
Episode 236: Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom) 02:10:37 2022-05-04 00:00
Episode 235: Animated Objects 01:51:06 2022-04-20 00:45
Episode 234: Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2) 01:53:03 2022-04-05 19:30
Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1) 01:53:29 2022-03-22 19:00
Episode 232: Mind Over Matter 01:39:21 2022-03-08 18:30
Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste") 01:51:00 2022-02-22 19:00
Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia") 01:50:00 2022-02-08 19:30
Episode 229: Skin Deep? 01:39:08 2022-01-25 18:30
Episode 228: Forever Jung 01:33:44 2022-01-11 21:15
Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water"). 01:38:44 2021-12-21 22:15
Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers) 01:56:50 2021-12-08 00:30
Episode 225: Forbidden Modules 01:42:27 2021-11-16 21:30
Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom) 01:42:39 2021-11-02 15:30
Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona") 01:28:28 2021-10-19 19:45
Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind 01:37:49 2021-10-06 01:30
Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords 01:50:55 2021-09-21 19:30
Episode 220: On Your Marx 01:50:45 2021-09-07 19:30
Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors 01:45:10 2021-08-17 22:45
Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché") 01:59:24 2021-08-03 19:00
Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions") 02:06:00 2021-07-20 18:30
Episode 216: Oral Judgments 01:40:56 2021-07-06 19:30
Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey 01:37:52 2021-06-22 22:30
Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should) 01:20:42 2021-06-08 18:15
Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang) 01:57:49 2021-05-25 21:00
Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar) 01:45:11 2021-05-11 21:30
Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru" 01:46:03 2021-04-20 20:45
Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal) 02:01:09 2021-04-06 22:30
Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom) 01:36:57 2021-03-23 17:00
Episode 208: Dream Theater 01:42:13 2021-03-09 20:00
Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray 01:28:36 2021-02-23 22:00
Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God") 01:37:53 2021-02-09 23:30
Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit") 01:32:58 2021-01-26 21:00
Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson) 01:36:42 2021-01-12 18:15
Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard) 01:34:58 2020-12-22 19:15
Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space") 01:31:36 2020-12-08 21:00
Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People 01:56:52 2020-11-24 18:00
Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular 01:44:36 2020-11-03 23:30
Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways 01:39:44 2020-10-20 21:30
Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness") 01:32:16 2020-10-06 22:30
Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life 01:52:50 2020-09-22 20:30
Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy 01:49:59 2020-09-08 19:30
Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov") 01:55:33 2020-08-25 21:45
Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson) 01:53:34 2020-08-12 00:00
Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person") 01:28:16 2020-07-21 19:30
Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote") 01:36:54 2020-07-07 18:00
Episode 191: All the Rage 01:36:57 2020-06-23 21:30
Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”) 02:01:27 2020-06-09 19:00
Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents") 01:37:42 2020-05-26 20:45
Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols") 01:42:25 2020-05-12 22:00
Episode 187: More Zither 01:40:38 2020-04-21 21:45
Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer 01:29:41 2020-04-07 18:00
Episode 185: The Devil's Playground 01:25:00 2020-03-24 20:45
Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters 01:26:37 2020-03-17 17:30
Episode 184: Tainted Glove 01:25:15 2020-03-10 20:45
Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom) 01:39:20 2020-02-25 23:00
Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar) 01:58:11 2020-02-12 00:30
Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon") 02:09:02 2020-01-29 00:30
Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon") 01:56:14 2020-01-14 21:00
Episode 179: Talking Shit 02:03:25 2019-12-24 20:45
Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir") 01:40:55 2019-12-10 22:30
Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism 02:04:59 2019-11-26 18:00
Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness 01:48:24 2019-11-12 20:45
Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”) 01:42:35 2019-10-29 17:00
Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2) 01:46:30 2019-10-15 19:00
Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"] 01:40:09 2019-10-01 17:45
Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)? 01:40:43 2019-09-17 21:00
Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job) 01:31:42 2019-08-28 00:00
Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking 01:49:35 2019-08-14 00:45
Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis") 01:50:08 2019-07-30 09:00
Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2) 01:33:16 2019-07-16 18:00
Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1) 01:08:13 2019-07-04 00:15
Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling") 01:49:15 2019-06-18 22:00
Episode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris) 02:16:15 2019-06-04 19:00
Episode 164: Choosing to Believe 01:21:31 2019-05-14 19:30
Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas") 01:34:18 2019-05-01 16:00
Episode 162: Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom) 01:26:43 2019-04-16 16:00
Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect) 01:25:01 2019-04-03 01:45
Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes 01:33:43 2019-03-19 17:00
Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison 01:15:53 2019-03-05 20:30
Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity 01:36:23 2019-02-19 19:00
Episode 157: Notes From Underground (Pt. 2) 01:21:27 2019-02-05 20:00
Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1) 01:43:37 2019-01-22 23:00
Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot 01:38:41 2019-01-08 19:30
Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius") 01:56:54 2018-12-18 20:30
Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart 01:46:53 2018-12-04 21:45
Episode 152: Ruthlessness, Public and Private 01:21:27 2018-11-20 20:45
Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange") 02:04:09 2018-11-06 21:00
Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots 01:26:24 2018-10-23 22:15
Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps 01:41:42 2018-10-02 18:00
Episode 148: Am I Wrong? 01:41:20 2018-09-19 06:00
Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill) 01:43:20 2018-09-04 18:00
Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?) 01:12:42 2018-08-21 21:45
Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden 01:37:03 2018-08-07 23:15
Episode 144: Borges' Babylon 01:23:57 2018-07-25 00:45
Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality 01:39:42 2018-07-10 19:30
Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock) 01:30:42 2018-06-26 21:45
Episode 141: Implicit Bias 01:21:29 2018-06-05 21:45
Episode 140: Milgram's Mice 01:33:23 2018-05-22 21:00
Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts 01:31:26 2018-05-12 19:30
Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) 01:45:38 2018-04-25 00:45
Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols) 01:19:17 2018-04-10 19:00
Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos) 01:32:10 2018-03-27 23:00
Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity 01:16:44 2018-03-13 21:30
Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett) 01:51:31 2018-02-27 20:00
Episode 133: Death and Dreams 01:15:19 2018-02-06 18:30
Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno) 01:35:42 2018-01-24 00:00
Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream 01:39:44 2018-01-09 23:00
Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom) 01:32:38 2017-12-26 21:45
Episode 129: Dystopias 01:45:38 2017-12-12 20:00
Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers) 01:50:04 2017-11-28 18:45
Episode 127: Moral Luck 01:24:42 2017-11-14 21:00
Episode 126: The Absurd 01:32:13 2017-10-24 22:00
Episode 125: Can You Feel It? 01:32:29 2017-10-10 17:00
Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life 01:21:54 2017-09-26 18:30
Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2) 01:27:54 2017-09-12 15:45
Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1) 01:40:40 2017-08-29 18:30
Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" 01:29:31 2017-08-15 18:00
Episode 120: Clap Your Hand for Robert Wright 01:47:10 2017-07-25 16:30
Episode 119: A Brief History of Values 01:26:12 2017-07-12 03:30
Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax 01:12:51 2017-06-28 03:30
Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins 01:11:12 2017-06-13 20:00
Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises 01:16:46 2017-05-31 17:00
Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology? 01:37:28 2017-05-16 16:00
Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge) 01:21:14 2017-05-04 14:00
Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks 01:18:17 2017-04-18 22:00
Episode 112: Gettier Goggles 01:31:56 2017-04-04 17:00
Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar) 01:03:21 2017-03-22 05:00
Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar) 00:41:51 2017-03-14 23:00
Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube 01:11:44 2017-02-28 23:00
Episode 108: The Gimp Exception 01:14:42 2017-02-07 18:00
Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas) 01:21:11 2017-01-24 17:00
Episode 106: American Grandstand 01:17:59 2017-01-10 16:30
Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes 01:23:05 2016-12-28 20:00
Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom) 01:33:39 2016-12-14 01:00
Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias 01:07:29 2016-11-29 18:00
Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue 01:37:30 2016-11-15 17:45
Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too 01:28:07 2016-11-01 01:30
Episode 100: It's a Celebration 01:38:25 2016-10-13 17:00
Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot 02:03:29 2016-09-27 16:00
Episode 98: Mind the Gap 01:22:28 2016-09-13 14:00
Episode 97: Dogmatic Slumber Party 01:23:02 2016-08-31 01:00
Episode 96: Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom) 01:26:54 2016-08-16 20:00
Bonus Episode: More Doobie-ous Theories About "Mr. Robot" (Season 2) 00:29:56 2016-08-10 00:15
Episode 95: The Repugnance of Repugnance 01:28:35 2016-08-02 19:00
Episode 94: Buttery Friendships 01:36:33 2016-07-20 01:00
Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar) 01:39:02 2016-07-05 20:00
Episode 92: Jonathan Edwards' Basement 01:08:30 2016-06-22 01:00
Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines 01:24:04 2016-06-08 00:00
Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals 01:20:50 2016-05-25 03:00
Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet) 01:37:54 2016-05-10 23:00
Episode 88: A Doobie for Elijah 01:20:56 2016-04-26 17:00
Episode 87: Lucky You (with Robert Frank) 01:19:53 2016-04-12 17:00
Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment 01:14:59 2016-03-22 16:00
Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom) 01:09:45 2016-03-12 01:00
Episode 84: Lifting the Veil 01:33:20 2016-02-23 22:00
Episode 83: Ego Trip 01:01:35 2016-02-09 22:00
Episode 82: Totalitarian Slide-Rulers 01:05:31 2016-01-26 17:00
Episode 81: Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar) 01:47:11 2016-01-12 21:00
Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers) 01:40:52 2015-12-21 20:00
Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius) 01:47:32 2015-12-04 01:00
Episode 78: Wizards Uprising 01:08:34 2015-11-24 05:00
Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel) 01:20:04 2015-11-09 23:00
Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes 01:02:51 2015-10-26 23:00
Episode 75: A Golden Shower of Guests 02:29:52 2015-10-06 07:00
Episode 74: Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison 01:53:46 2015-09-16 14:00
Episode 73: Authentic Apes and Infinite Torture 01:08:43 2015-08-12 03:00
Episode 72: Tweenie Turing Tests, AI, and Ex Machina (with Joshua Weisberg) 01:32:34 2015-07-29 00:00
Episode 71: The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot" 01:06:37 2015-07-15 01:00
Episode 70: Some Favorite Things 01:34:52 2015-06-29 05:00
Episode 69: CHiPs on Our Shoulders (Lessons in Objectivity) 01:33:41 2015-06-17 20:00
Episode 68: Risky, Reckless, and Regretful 01:14:16 2015-06-02 00:00
Episode 67: Funny How? 01:17:08 2015-05-18 07:00
Episode 66: Übermensch at Work 01:24:52 2015-04-20 06:00
Episode 65: Philocalypse Now 01:19:22 2015-04-06 06:00
Episode 64: Believing in a Just World 01:13:24 2015-03-20 00:00
Episode 63: Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris) 02:46:42 2015-02-28 02:00
Episode 62: Brain Jizz and "Black Mirror" 01:01:02 2015-02-09 21:00
Episode 61: Putting a Little Meaning in Your Life 01:15:27 2015-01-19 23:00
Episode 60: Drunk on Intuitions 01:12:42 2015-01-02 03:00
Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris) 02:32:16 2014-12-16 02:00
Episode 58: Do the Right Thing (with Yoel Inbar) 01:30:27 2014-12-02 05:00
Episode 57: Free Willie 00:45:39 2014-11-18 05:00
Episode 56: Moral Heroes and Drunk Utilitarians 01:10:43 2014-11-03 22:00
Episode 55: Rooting for Evil (With Paul Bloom) 01:18:19 2014-10-21 03:00
Episode 54: Pooping on Ecstasy (Pain, Pleasure, and the Ethics of Breeding) 01:17:51 2014-09-24 11:00
Episode 53: The Psychology People Love to Hate (Evolutionary Psychology Pt.1) 01:15:21 2014-09-09 01:00
Episode 52: Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2) 01:16:36 2014-08-25 17:00
Episode 51: Zombies, Trolleys, and Galileo's Balls 01:18:34 2014-08-12 03:00
Episode 50: Keeping it Unreal 01:27:04 2014-07-15 04:00
Episode 49: Psychopaths and Contrastivizzzzzzzz (With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) 01:43:43 2014-06-24 00:00
Episode 48: Restorative Circle Jerk 01:08:01 2014-06-09 22:00
Episode 47: Schooled By Our Listeners 01:02:09 2014-05-22 10:00
Episode 46: The Real Josh Knobe 01:04:21 2014-05-05 05:00
Episode 45: Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets" 01:08:27 2014-04-21 05:00
Episode 44: Killer Robots 01:08:40 2014-04-05 19:00
Episode 43: The Nature of Nudges 00:50:04 2014-03-17 05:00
Episode 42: Reason, Responsibility, and Roombas (With Paul Bloom) 01:07:59 2014-03-03 08:00
Episode 41: Moral Dilemmas at the Movies 01:37:40 2014-02-19 04:00
Episode 40: How Many Moralities Are There? Pt. 2 (with Jesse Graham) 01:19:59 2014-02-03 22:00
Episode 39: How Many Moralities Are There? (Pt.1) 00:59:49 2014-01-20 17:00
Episode 38: The Greatest Movies Ever Made about Personal Identity 01:21:24 2013-12-31 02:00
Episode 37: Porn, Poop, and Personal Identity (with Nina Strohminger) 00:45:48 2013-12-17 04:45
Episode 36: An Irresponsible Meta-Book Review of Joshua Greene's "Moral Tribes" 00:55:13 2013-11-26 00:00
Episode 35: Douchebags and Desert 01:01:04 2013-11-11 21:00
Episode 34: Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson) 01:14:00 2013-10-28 13:00
Episode 33: Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos) 00:57:10 2013-10-14 18:00
Episode 32: Disagreeing About Disagreement 01:18:40 2013-09-30 15:00
Episode 31: An Anthropologist's Guide to Moral Psychology (Pt. 1) 00:54:55 2013-09-16 03:00
Episode 30: The Greatest Books Ever Written 01:11:49 2013-09-02 18:00
Episode 29: PEDs, Tenure Pills, and "Hyberbolic Chambers" 00:47:55 2013-08-19 20:00
Episode 28: Moral Persuasion 01:09:05 2013-08-05 07:00
Episode 27: You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias) 01:22:15 2013-07-22 07:00
Episode 26: Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering) 01:21:30 2013-07-08 04:00
Episode 25: Burning Armchairs (with Joshua Knobe) 00:58:29 2013-06-24 10:00
Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom) 01:23:02 2013-06-10 16:00
Episode 23: Straw Dogs (with Yoel Inbar) 01:16:25 2013-05-27 13:00
Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness 01:04:10 2013-05-13 01:00
Episode 21: Grad School 01:33:26 2013-05-06 16:00
Episode 20: Boston, Brains, and Bad Pronunciation (with Molly Crockett) 01:00:21 2013-04-21 22:00
Episode 19: The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 2) 01:03:10 2013-04-06 14:00
Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich) 00:49:55 2013-03-22 22:00
Episode 17: Learning about Bushmen by Studying Freshmen? 00:50:13 2013-03-16 01:00
Episode 16: Race, Reparations, and American (In)Justice (with Damani McDole) 01:00:22 2013-03-02 20:00
Episode 15: The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 1) 00:53:51 2013-02-16 07:00
Episode 14: Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers 00:27:15 2013-02-08 23:00
Episode 13: Beanballs, Blood Feuds, and Collective Moral Responsibility (With Fiery Cushman) 01:00:10 2013-01-22 08:00
Episode 12: Justice for #!$@ ? 01:13:06 2013-01-14 01:00
Episode 11: It is Morally Wrong to Kill Morgan Freeman (with Yoel Inbar) 01:15:49 2012-12-28 21:00
Episode 10: Religion, Meaning, and Morality 00:58:53 2012-12-11 04:00
Episode 9: Social Psychology, Situationism, and Moral Character 01:08:49 2012-12-03 07:00
Episode 8: Dishonesty, Character, and Dan Ariely 01:11:04 2012-11-12 01:00
Episode 7: Psychopaths and Utilitarians Pt. 2 (Now with more poo poo) 01:07:01 2012-11-04 08:00
Episode 6: Trolleys, Utilitarians, and Psychopaths (Part 1) 01:01:40 2012-10-20 21:00
Episode 5: Revenge, Pt. 2: The Revenge 01:05:03 2012-10-08 18:00
Episode 4: Revenge, Pt. 1 00:51:35 2012-09-21 01:00
Episode 3: "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth) 01:01:35 2012-09-08 21:00
Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2) 01:13:51 2012-09-01 05:00
Episode 1: Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1) 01:10:52 2012-08-30 07:00