Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Piz
David and Tamler mask up and wander through the audio and visual orgy of Stanley Kubrick’s final mas
David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the natur
David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic pap
Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that’s true for
David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is jus
We welcome Paul Bloom to talk about the first season of "Severance," the new mind-bending and mind-s
Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to th
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of "The Trial," Franz Kafka's darkly comic vision of an o
David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In pa
It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the
Many of us think that art is subjective, but at the same time it seems like some artistic judgments
David and Tamler sink deeper and deeper into Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s harrowing and stunningly
We think racism is wrong but what about “lookism” – a bias that favors attractive people over unattr
David and Tamler confront their shadows and dive into Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscio
David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon College
First, it’s the return of the annual drunken Thanksgiving segment! Tamler and based wicked stepmom C
David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary p
VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to talk about the pleasures of suffering, flow states, Sisyphus, me
David and Tamler dive into Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece Persona, a film about two (?) women, El
David and Tamler don black turtlenecks and light up a couple of Gauloises to talk about Jean Paul Sa
