Podcast

Very Bad Wizards

Author: Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
Feed episode count: 341
Official site: http://sites.libsyn.com/474285/site
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Summary

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.

Episodes

Jul 14, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 336: That Oceanic Feeling (Stanisław Lem's "Solaris")

Duration seconds: 5716
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Jun 30, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 335: The Wright Stuff

Duration seconds: 5413
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Jun 16, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 334: Let's Get Metaphysical

Duration seconds: 4816
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May 26, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 333: P-hacking the Mind

Duration seconds: 3267
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May 12, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 332: Talking to Myself ("The Other" by Jorge Luis Borges)

Duration seconds: 6885
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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 331: Who's Your Law Daddy? (Plato's "Crito")

Duration seconds: 5507
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Apr 14, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's "The Overcoat")

Duration seconds: 4604
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Mar 31, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 329: Why We Suffer

Duration seconds: 4812
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Mar 17, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 328: Weapons Free

Duration seconds: 6156
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Feb 24, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

Duration seconds: 5553
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Feb 10, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life

Duration seconds: 3550
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Jan 27, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 325: It Is Happening Again

Duration seconds: 4332
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Jan 13, 2026 · not_requested

Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

Duration seconds: 4047
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Dec 23, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro

Duration seconds: 4089
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Dec 9, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")

Duration seconds: 4860
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Nov 25, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)

Duration seconds: 5381
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Nov 11, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

Duration seconds: 5359
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Oct 28, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

Duration seconds: 5710
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Oct 14, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

Duration seconds: 6538
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Sep 30, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 317: For Shame

Duration seconds: 5010
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Sep 16, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")

Duration seconds: 5595
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Sep 2, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism)

Duration seconds: 5400
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Aug 12, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place

Duration seconds: 7136
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Jul 29, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now

Duration seconds: 4530
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Jul 15, 2025 · not_requested

Episode 312: MechaSkeptic

Duration seconds: 4584
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