308 Episodes

  1. Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)

    Published: 7/3/2019
  2. Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

    Published: 6/18/2019
  3. Episode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)

    Published: 6/4/2019
  4. Episode 164: Choosing to Believe

    Published: 5/14/2019
  5. Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")

    Published: 5/1/2019
  6. Episode 162: Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)

    Published: 4/16/2019
  7. Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

    Published: 4/2/2019
  8. Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes

    Published: 3/19/2019
  9. Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

    Published: 3/5/2019
  10. Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

    Published: 2/19/2019
  11. Episode 157: Notes From Underground (Pt. 2)

    Published: 2/5/2019
  12. Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)

    Published: 1/22/2019
  13. Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot

    Published: 1/8/2019
  14. Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")

    Published: 12/18/2018
  15. Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

    Published: 12/4/2018
  16. Episode 152: Ruthlessness, Public and Private

    Published: 11/20/2018
  17. Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

    Published: 11/6/2018
  18. Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots

    Published: 10/23/2018
  19. Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

    Published: 10/2/2018
  20. Episode 148: Am I Wrong?

    Published: 9/19/2018

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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.