Very Bad Wizards

Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)

2017/8/29

David and Tamler do their best to talk frankly about intelligence and IQ research. (It's our Patreon

Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"

2017/8/15

Guest Yoel Inbar joins David and Tamler to break down David Lynch’s dreamy masterpiece Mulholland Dr

Episode 120: Clap Your Hand for Robert Wright

2017/7/25

Special guest Robert Wright joins the podcast to discuss his latest book "Why Buddhism is True." Wha

Episode 119: A Brief History of Values

2017/7/12

What happens when we discover why we believe the things we believe? What if we discover that our val

Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax

2017/6/28

David and Tamler try to put the topic of campus politics to bed once and for all – with limited succ

Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins

2017/6/13

David and Tamler break down a recent classic in the philosophy of mind: "The Extended Mind" by Andy

Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

2017/5/31

David and Tamler break down the latest small-stakes academic controversy--yes the one about conceptu

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

2017/5/16

David and Tamler go ambulance chasing for scandals in their own fields. Inspired by a tweet from Jay

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

2017/5/4

Somehow, after 113 episodes David and Tamler have never done a top 5 movie episode about revenge (so

Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

2017/4/18

David and Tamler break down what may be the best argument that it's rational to believe in God: Pasc

Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

2017/4/4

For four years Tamler has been bitching about Gettier cases without even explaining what they are or

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

2017/3/22

In Part 2 of our episode with film scholar Yoel Inbar (AOS: Quebecois New Wave Cinema), we break dow

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

2017/3/14

Any time the topic is campus politics there's a good chance we'll have to record more than once. Tru

Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

2017/2/28

David and Tamler return to their repugnant roots to talk about Cornell's refusal to hire conservativ

Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

2017/2/7

Inspired by a recent article, David and Tamler try to figure out what's behind our aversion to moral

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

2017/1/24

The philosopher and pride of Bakersfield, CA Manuel Vargas joins us to talk about culpability under

Episode 106: American Grandstand

2017/1/10

David and Tamler take a break from moral grandstanding to talk about moral grandstanding. How often

Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

2016/12/28

David and Tamler go back to basics--discussing a paper (Victoria McGeer on responsibilty and Strawso

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

2016/12/14

Paul Bloom takes some time away from his "Waking Up" appearances to join us for a very special movie

Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias

2016/11/29

Itâ€™s the Thanksgiving episode! David and Tamler give thanks to their listeners and Patreon support

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