Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
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Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to discuss their five favorite comic films with philosophical/psychological themes. Groundhog Day was off-limits for our top five (we would've all chosen it) so we start by explaining why it's the quintessential movie for this topic. Links [all movie links are to imdb.com]

• Paul's Top 5

• The Big Lebowski)

• Shaun of the Dead)

• The Man with Two Brains)/All of Me)

• Stranger than Fiction)

• Being There)

• Tamler's Top 5

• Defending Your Life)/Lost in America)

• Modern Times)

• Seven Psychopaths)/In Bruges)

• Barton Fink)/Sullivan's Travels)

• Purple Rose of Cairo)

• David's Top 5

• Office Space)

• Dr. Strangelove)

• Pinker, S. (1999). "The Doomsday Machine") in How the mind works. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 882(1), 119-127.

• Brazil)

• Trading Places)

• Mr. Skin)

• The Princess Bride)

Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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