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Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

2013/6/10
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Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of  empathy as a guide our moral decisions.  And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil *,  *racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world.  In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .   Links

  • The Baby in the Well: The Case Against Empathy) by Paul Bloom [newyorker.com] 
  • Descartes' Baby)  by Paul Bloom [amazon.com]
  • Jesse Prinz "Is empathy necessary for morality") [subcortex.com] 
  • Pizarro, Bloom, and Detweiler-Bedell on the empathy, disgust, and the moral circle) [peezer.net] 
  • Pre-order Just babies: The origins of good and evil) by Paul Bloom [amazon.com]
  • Louis CK: My Life is Really Evil.  )

 

Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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