308 Episodes

  1. Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

    Published: 2/9/2021
  2. Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

    Published: 1/26/2021
  3. Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)

    Published: 1/12/2021
  4. Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

    Published: 12/22/2020
  5. Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")

    Published: 12/8/2020
  6. Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

    Published: 11/24/2020
  7. Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

    Published: 11/3/2020
  8. Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

    Published: 10/20/2020
  9. Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")

    Published: 10/6/2020
  10. Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

    Published: 9/22/2020
  11. Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

    Published: 9/8/2020
  12. Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")

    Published: 8/25/2020
  13. Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

    Published: 8/11/2020
  14. Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

    Published: 7/21/2020
  15. Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

    Published: 7/7/2020
  16. Episode 191: All the Rage

    Published: 6/23/2020
  17. Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)

    Published: 6/9/2020
  18. Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

    Published: 5/26/2020
  19. Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

    Published: 5/12/2020
  20. Episode 187: More Zither

    Published: 4/21/2020

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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.