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.Read more »
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.Read Less
David and Tamler discuss the invasion of dual process theories in psychology, and more generally how psychologists and philosophers love theories that divide complex phenomena into two categories. Is there any evidence to back up these theories? Is our infatuation with the number two just an artefact of how we evolved? Most importantly, have we established frameworks that distort rather than inform our understanding of the mind and morality? And what we can do to get out of this mess? Plus, we talk about our moral pet peeves, Liam Neeson, and oral ethics.