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Very Bad Wizards

Very Bad Wizards

285 Episodes By Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro sites.libsyn.com/474285/site...
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, recen ...more
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Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter
We dig into the biggest rivalry in Tamler’s professi... more
Mar 26 2024 1h 22m
Disciplines and Individual Authors
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Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)
Phil Ford and J.F. Martel from the great "Weird Stud... more
Mar 12 2024 1h 39m
Exploring Plato's Cave and Perception
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Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Lee Ch... more
Feb 27 2024 1h 9m
Elephants and Dogs
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Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)
David and Tamler fall under the spell of Lee Chang-d... more
Feb 13 2024 1h 32m
The Subjectivity of Movie Perspective
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Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")
David and Tamler play the old hits – Thomas Nagel an... more
Jan 30 2024 1h 35m
Discussion on the Concept of Perversion
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Episode 276: Attention Please
David and Tamler are back for the new year and one o... more
Jan 16 2024 1h 27m
Relevance of 19th Century Psychology
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Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph")
An episode interesting from every point of view, we ... more
Dec 26 2023 1h 34m
Appreciating Satire and Love in Stories
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Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)
RETURNING guest Vlad Chituc joins us for a wide-rang... more
Dec 13 2023 1h 35m
Effective Altruism
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Episode 273: Spirited Away
David and Tamler board the train for Hayao Miyazaki’... more
Nov 29 2023 1h 57m
Miyazaki's Spirited Away Themes and Impact
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Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay
The morality of zoophilia has received shockingly li... more
Nov 15 2023 1h 24m
Analytic Philosophy and Social Group Importance
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Episode 271: Concept-Con 2023
It’s the first annual “Concept-Con” – a not at all c... more
Oct 31 2023 58m
Exploring Ideas and Concepts
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Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)
David and Tamler conclude their three-part discussio... more
Oct 10 2023 1h 43m
Interpreting Technological Progress
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Episode 269: Blood Meridian, Part 2: Death Hilarious
In part 2 of our journey into Cormac McCarthy’s Bloo... more
Sep 26 2023 1h 31m
Comanche Attack in Mexican-American War
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Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1
In part one of our two-part episode on Cormac McCart... more
Sep 12 2023 1h 17m
Bleak Reflections on Human Nature
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Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality
David and Tamler return to the work of old favorite ... more
Aug 22 2023 1h 12m
James' Reality and Philosophy Views
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I Want to Half-Believe
Last December, with Argentina minutes away from a Wo... more
Aug 8 2023 1h 22m
Psychological Study and Self-Reflection
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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)
The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time ... more
Jul 25 2023 1h 20m
The Unconscious Mind in Problem Solving
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[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine
A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wri... more
Jul 18 2023 1h 8m
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Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")
David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak ... more
Jul 11 2023 2h 10m
Interpreting the Complexity of Shigoro
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Episode 263: Free Yoel
A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler h... more
Jun 27 2023 1h 35m
Dutch People and Psychology PR
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Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Ni... more
Jun 13 2023 1h 28m
Critiques of Enlightenment Naturalism
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Episode 261: Death of the Author
What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text m... more
May 30 2023 1h 22m
Analyzing Text With Theoretical Frameworks
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Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
David and Tamler take the first excursion into the w... more
May 9 2023 1h 29m
Murakami's Western Influences
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Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)
The great Paul Bloom returns to the show to explore ... more
Apr 25 2023 1h 56m
The Irony of Time
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Episode 258: Mystic Peeza
David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter o... more
Apr 11 2023 1h 33m
The Unifying Science of Spiritual Experiences
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