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Very Bad Wizards

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Piz

Episodes

Total: 316

For those who thought our most uncomfortable topics were behind us, on this episode we are joined by

You don't need to be a psychologist or a philosopher to enjoy a good, old-fashioned bitch-fest. In t

In a break from tradition, we recorded a 25-minute episode on the morality of tattletaling, snitchin

Our classiest episode yet (OK, that's not saying much, but still...)--Psychologist Fiery Cushman joi

Episode 12: Justice for #!$@ ?

2013/1/14

Dave and Tamler square off the role of the victim in criminal punishment and find little to agree ab

Social psychologist Yoel Inbar joins Tamler and David to discuss Clint Eastwood's masterpiece of the

Does life have meaning if there is no God? Why should I be a good person if there's no reward or pun

After discussing some listener feedback about the movie Swingers, Tamler and David talk about two cl

In a Very Special Episode of Very Bad Wizards, Dan Ariely joins David to chat about cheating, charac

After a clip from The Third Man, Dave and Tamler continue their discussion from Episode 6 on Ted Bun

Tamler contemplates ending it all because he can't get 'Call Me Maybe' out of his head, and Dave doe

Dave and Tamler continue their discussion about their favorite topic.  They talk about the evolution

Episode 4: Revenge, Pt. 1

2012/9/20

Dave allows Tamler to rant about Sam Harris’s strawman attacks on moral relativism before launching

Tamler and Dave discuss recent work in philosophy and psychology about the differences in moral valu

Tamler and David discuss whether giving up our belief in free will makes us more likely to abandon o

Dave and Tamler start out talking about the new wave of skepticism about free will and moral respons