Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Piz
David and Tamler screw their courage to the sticking place and talk about their first Shakespeare pl
David and Tamler try to wrap their heads around the predictive processing theory of the mind and bra
David and Tamler heed the call to journey into the realm of Joseph Campbell. What are the unifying e
We kick off our Bonus "Noir Summer" series with Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly" (1956). While the
David and Tamler return to their happy place and talk about two pieces by JL Borges – the story “Sha
David and Tamler talk about two famous puzzles that for different reasons have bedeviled the rationa
David and Tamler welcome Barry Lam back to the show. In the first segment we violate one of our own
VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to break down the Severance season finale and season 2 in general.
What has four thumbs and can effortlessly glide from the a priori to the a posteriori in a single ep
Everyone knows Tamler hates numbers but he’s not the only one who worries about them. We talk about
What makes something weird? What makes something eerie? David and Tamler wander into Mark Fisher’s T
It’s Back 2 Basics: Psychology edition! Do coins look bigger to poor people? Do hills look steeper t
David and Tamler celebrate their 300th episode with a deep dive into the movie that inspired the pod
David and Tamler talk wrap up the new year talking about intellectual virtues and Rachel Fraser’s ex
Why do we punish people? How did our punishment practices evolve and what is their primary function?
David and Tamler face off with the Misfit in Flannery O’Connor’s classic short story “A Good Man is
David and Tamler share a few brief thoughts on the election and then raise some questions about Tuck
David and Tamler hop into their Scooby Van and drive into Tobe Hooper’s mad and macabre horror class
CD Broad called induction “the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.” As a matter of habit
David and Tamler crawl up a riverbank, kiss the mud, and dream a discussion of Borges’ “The Circular
