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Very Bad Wizards

Podcast door Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

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Geschiedenis & Religie

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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.

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Episode 329: Why We Suffer

David and Tamler return to the work of Richard Shweder and colleagues, focusing this time on his foundational paper "The "Big Three" of Morality (Autonomy, Community, Divinity) and the "Big Three" Explanations of Suffering. What are the various ways that people explain suffering and illness across cultures? What do we lose when we only emphasize biomedical explanations? Why can't social psychology be more like this? Plus a new Chalmers (not that one) paper argues that monogamy is impermissible. Hello ladies! Join at the right Patreon tier and vote on an episode topic! [https://www.patreon.com/c/verybadwizards/membership] [patreon.com] Chalmers, H. (2019). Is monogamy morally permissible?. [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/harry-chalmers-is-monogamy-morally-permissiblee] The Journal of Value Inquiry, 53(2), 225-241. Harry Chalmers' Substack post on Monogamy [https://noeticpathways.substack.com/p/monogamy-moorean-shifting-and-commonsense] Shweder, R. A., Much, N. C., Mahapatra, M., & Park, L. (1997). The "big three" of morality (autonomy, community, and divinity) and the "big three" explanations of suffering. [s/Shweder-Much-Mahapatra-Park-1997.pdf] In A. Brandt & P. Rozin (Eds.), Morality and health (pp. 119–169). Routledge.

31 mrt 2026 - 1 h 20 min
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Episode 328: Weapons Free

David and Tamler cross the border into Denis Villeneuve's taut and propulsive thriller Sicario, the story of an FBI agent who gets pulled into a task force drawn from the shadiest elements of the US government. The assignment: to disrupt, infiltrate, and take down a major Mexican cartel. But what's the deal with Alejandro, and who does he work for? This is Roger Deakins in God mode and Villeneuve, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio Del Toro at the very top of their games. Plus, we select 16 topics from the hundreds submitted by our beloved patrons for VBW Madness 2, a tournament to determine what we discuss on the listener selected episode. Join the VBW Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/verybadwizards] to vote on the winner! Sicario [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)] [wikipedia.org]

17 mrt 2026 - 1 h 42 min
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Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

David and Tamler return to the Southern Gothic well and talk about Flannery O'Connor's short story masterpiece "Good Country People." A nihilistic atheist philosophy PhD named Joy or Helga (depending on who you ask) lives with her mother and some tenants on a farm in rural Georgia. One day 19-year-old aw-shucksy Bible salesman comes to the house and shakes up her philosophical convictions. Plus a case study of a sexsomniac who masturbates (and more) in his sleep. Support Eliza's film project [https://seedandspark.com/fund/boxed-in-ut-thesis-film#story] [seedandspark.com] Brice, M., Gales, A. Z., Attali, V., Chauvin, M., & Arnulf, I. (2026). Left hand sleep masturbation in a right-handed male patient with sexsomnia. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389945726000626] Sleep Medicine, 108823. [scientificdirect.com] Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Country_People] [wikipedia.org]

24 feb 2026 - 1 h 32 min
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