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Articles discussed on the Very Bad Wizards podcast.

Being Exalted: An A Priori Argument for the Trinity

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Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land

Cargo Cult Science

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Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land

Interrogating the “cargo cult science” metaphor

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Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land

Value Capture

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Episode 303: Measure This

Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for 'top-down' effects

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Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

Cognitive Penetration and the Epistemology of Perception

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Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

Value and need as organizing factors in perception

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Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

Precis of the modularity of mind

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Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

Roger Ebert's review of The Wizard of Oz

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Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain

The Wizard of Oz as allegory for atheism

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Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain

Why intellectual humility isn't always a virtue

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Episode 299: Oh the Humility!

Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies

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Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe

Third-party punishment [wikipedia.org]

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Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe

The effect of safety attire on perceptions of cyclist dehumanisation

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Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find")

Cognitive reflection and decision making

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Episode 296: The Other CRT

A Validity Analysis of the Cognitive Reflection Test Using an Item-Response-Tree Model

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Episode 296: The Other CRT

A reflection on cognitive reflection–testing convergent/divergent validity of two measures of cognitive reflection

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Episode 296: The Other CRT

The formation and revision of intuitions

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Episode 296: The Other CRT

Season's mis-greetings: why timing matters in global academia

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Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Both Democrats and Republicans can pass the Ideological Turing Test

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Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

The Ideological Turing Test

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Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

The Children Who Remember Past Lives

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Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

Ian Stevenson - criticisms

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Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

The Problem of Induction

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Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

Unfinished business: The problem of induction

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Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas

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Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You

Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors

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Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture

A fascinating theory about the cultural influence of rice farming now has evidence of causality

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Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture

People quasi-randomly assigned to farm rice are more collectivistic than people assigned to farm wheat

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Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture

Large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice versus wheat agriculture

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Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture

When does “no” mean no? Insights from sex robots.

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Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")

Sexual perversion.

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Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")

Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Fired

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Episode 276: Attention Please

William James chapter on Attention from Principles of Psychology (1890)

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Episode 276: Attention Please

Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research

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Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.

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Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

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Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

Stop the Robot Apocalypse

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Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

Do conversations end when people want them to?

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Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")

Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible

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Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay

Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital

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Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay

Loneliness across time and space

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Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay

Development and validation of a measure of passive aggression traits: the Passive Aggression Scale (PAS)

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Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)

21 Questions to Identify a Passive-Aggressive Person

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Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)

CHEAT: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness

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Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2)

Civic honesty around the globe

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Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2)

Evidence that opposites don't attract

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Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1

Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits | Nature Human Behaviour

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Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1

Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?

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Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality

James Steele's Tweet

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Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

Caspi, A., Shmuel, E., & Chajut, E. (2023). A quantitative examination of half-belief in superstition. Journal of Individual Differences

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Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

Pinker & Bloom 1990

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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

Dijksterhuis & Strick 2016

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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

The illusion of moral decline

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Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

Data Colada post about Gino fraud

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Episode 263: Free Yoel

The Party is Canceled

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Episode 261: Death of the Author

Authorial Intent

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Episode 261: Death of the Author

One word Turing test

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Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

Paul Bloom on Twitter: 'I agree with this decision-nobody should force profs to use trigger warnings. But I'm mildly pro-TW and have used them in the past. It's often basic decency to warn people--and this includes students--before exposing them to shocking material.'

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Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)

Best-Selling Author & Harvard Professor Steven Pinker Will Transform His Ideas into NFTs | Blockster

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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

I Asked an Algorithm to Optimize My Life. Here's What Happened | WIRED

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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan

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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

Marshall McLuhan - Wikipedia

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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

Marshall McLuhan Interview from Playboy (1969)

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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Insurrections | Essay

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Episode 256: The Right to Punish?

Murphy, J. G. (1973). Marxism and retribution. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 217-243.

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Episode 256: The Right to Punish?

Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - The New York Times

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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript - The New York Times

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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

The meditative empathy of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi - Vox

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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Piranesi’s Disenchanted World

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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Susanna Clarke’s Fantasy World of Interiors | The New Yorker

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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Aphantasia - Wikipedia

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Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit

Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. - The New York Times

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Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit

The Vividness Of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (the “aphantasia Test”)

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Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit

How To Be Good | The New Yorker (Profile on Derek Parfit by Larissa MacFarquar)

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Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit

Parfit, D. (1971) Personal Identity, The Philosophical Review, 80, 3-27.

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Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit

Richardson, D. C., Devlin, J., Hogan, J. S., & Thompson, C. (2023). Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link.

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Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild

Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever devised | Aeon Essays

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Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can

Seneca--On the Happy Life

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Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can

The banality of ChatGPT - by Erik Hoel

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Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor by George Lakoff

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Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down

George Lakoff - Wikipedia

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Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down

Conceptual metaphor - Wikipedia

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Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down

Things could be better by Adam Mastroianni & Ethan Ludwin-Peery

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Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")

Illusory checkmates: why chess is not a game | SpringerLink

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Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

Ye's 'death con 3' tweet

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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

Waking Up App

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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

2001: A Space Odyssey (film) - Wikipedia

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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

How Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey - Part 1: The Dawn of Man - YouTube

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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

The Two Fiduciary Duties of Professors - Heterodox Academy | Heterodox Academy

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Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")

SPSP DEI submission guidelines

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Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")

Matt Walsh Slammed For Saying Black 'Little Mermaid' Isn't 'Scientific'

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Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking

Pragmatism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking

Rorty, R. (1985). Solidarity or objectivity. Post-analytic philosophy, 3, 5-6.

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Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking

Funes the Memorious - Wikipedia

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Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Remembering

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Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

Enders, A., Farhart, C., Miller, J., Uscinski, J., Saunders, K., & Drochon, H. (2022). Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories?. Political behavior, 1-24.

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Episode 243: Finding My Religion

The Splintered Mind: Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?

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Episode 242: Losing My Religion

A Seemingly Paradoxical Relationship Between Masturbation Frequency and Sexual Satisfaction | SpringerLink

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Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")

Introducing Sociology | Tim Kreider

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Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")

Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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Episode 240: Evil

Moral Alignment Test

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Episode 240: Evil

The Concept of Evil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Episode 240: Evil

Moral Monsters and Saints by Daniel M. Haybron

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Episode 240: Evil

The Concept of Evil by Marcus Singer

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Episode 240: Evil

Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia

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Episode 239: Lose Yourself

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Wikipedia

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Episode 239: Lose Yourself

Play and Intrinsic Rewards (1975) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Episode 239: Lose Yourself

Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?

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Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?

Why You Need To Leave Academia - Cheeky Scientist

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Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?

A Psychological Perspective on Vicarious Embarrassment and Shame in the Context of Cringe Humor

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Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit

Elon Musk should stop making that stupid sex joke about Tesla's car names - The Verge

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Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit

Indian Joker / Rizxtar | Know Your Meme

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Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit

The female orgasm may have evolved as a mate-selection tool, according to new research

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Episode 236: Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)

The Common Consent Argument for the Existence of Nature Spirits by Tiddy Smith

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Episode 235: Animated Objects

Peoples, H. C., Duda, P., & Marlowe, F. W. (2016). Hunter-gatherers and the origins of religion. Human Nature, 27(3), 261-282.

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Episode 235: Animated Objects

Ingold, T. (2006). Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), 9-20.

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Episode 235: Animated Objects

Psychologists want to talk Putin out of war with open letter - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

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Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)

Strawson, G. 'Realistic monism: Why physicalism entails panpsychism'

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Episode 232: Mind Over Matter

Chalmers, D. 'Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism'

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Episode 232: Mind Over Matter

Exchange between Galen Strawson and Daniel Dennett on the 'denial' of consciousness.

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Episode 232: Mind Over Matter

Räsänen, J. (2019). Moral case for legal age change. Journal of medical ethics, 45(7), 461-464.

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Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Of the Standard of Taste by David Hume (pdf)

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Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy section on Hume's Essay

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Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity | PNAS

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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Landmark Poverty Experiment Shows Extra Money Changes Babies' Brains

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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

M&Ms characters redesigned for a more dynamic, progressive world, Mars announces - CBS News

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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Mourning and Melancholia - Wikipedia

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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Melancholia (2011 film) - Wikipedia

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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Is It Bad to Prefer Attractive Partners?

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Episode 229: Skin Deep?

Bartolo, A., Ballotta, D., Nocetti, L., Baraldi, P., Nichelli, P. F., & Benuzzi, F. (2021). Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5268.

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Episode 228: Forever Jung

The Concept of the Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung

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Episode 228: Forever Jung

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

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Episode 228: Forever Jung

Artificial intelligence turns racist after learning from humans | Metro News

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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

Ask Delphi

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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

Very Bad Wizards Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines

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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Street

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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

The University of Austin (UATX)

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Episode 225: Forbidden Modules

Modularity of Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Episode 225: Forbidden Modules

Pietraszewski, David, and Annie E. Wertz. 'Why evolutionary psychology should abandon modularity.' Perspectives on Psychological Science (2021).

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Episode 225: Forbidden Modules

Dave Chappelle’s ‘The Closer’ Is Not a Simple Victim-Bully Story - The Atlantic

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Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

Persona movie review & film summary (1967) | Roger Ebert

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Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

Too Much Free Time Isn’t Actually Bad For You

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Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind

Sharif, M. A., Mogilner, C., & Hershfield, H. E. (2021). Having too little or too much time is linked to lower subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind

Meditations On Moloch

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Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty - Data Colada

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Episode 220: On Your Marx

People who are willing to try new foods are perceived as more desirable and less sexually restricted

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Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors

Bradshaw, H. K., Mengelkoch, S., Espinosa, M., Darrell, A., & Hill, S. E. (2021). You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111082.

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Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors

Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable? | Aeon Essays

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Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

The Splintered Mind: On the Epistemic Status of Deathbed Regrets

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Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Wikipedia

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Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific 'Truth' - Scientific American Blog Network

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Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

The Ashtray Has Landed: The Case of Morris v. Kuhn

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Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2013). Oral sex as infidelity-detection. Personality and Individual Differences, 54(6), 792-795.

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Episode 216: Oral Judgments

Clearer Thinking | How to apologise

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Episode 216: Oral Judgments

Schumann, K., & Dragotta, A. (2020). Is moral redemption possible? The effectiveness of public apologies for sexual misconduct. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, 104002.

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Episode 216: Oral Judgments

Ohtsubo, Y., & Watanabe, E. (2009). Do sincere apologies need to be costly? Test of a costly signaling model of apology. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(2), 114-123.

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Episode 216: Oral Judgments

I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies by Nick Smith :: SSRN

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Episode 216: Oral Judgments

Dan Harmon Apologizes for Sexually Harassing Megan Ganz | Time

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Episode 216: Oral Judgments

[Essay] History As End, By Matthew Karp | Harper's Magazine

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Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey

On Having Whiteness by Donald Moss

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Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey

Sean Wilentz: A Matter of Facts - The Atlantic

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Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey

The Vampire Problem: A Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Paradox of Transformative Experience – Brain Pickings

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Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey

Paul, L. A. (2015). Précis of Transformative Experience

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Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey

Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images | Scientific Reports

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Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

'I was shocked it was so easy': ​meet the professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

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Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

One of the most famous campus outrage incidents was badly misreported - Vox

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Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

“False positive” emotions, responsibility, and moral character - ScienceDirect

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Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

Neuroskeptic on Twitter: 'Bullshit ability is associated with an individual's intelligence'

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Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence - Martin Harry Turpin, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Alexander C. Walker, Heather E. K. Walker, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Jennifer A. Stolz, 2021

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Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Soma (video game) - Wikipedia

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Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

SOMA Walkthrough- IGN

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Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

SOMA Review - IGN

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Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

SOMA and I | Blog of the APA

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Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Journal of Controversial Ideas

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Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)

Dogs Mentally Represent Jealousy-Inducing Social Interactions - Amalia P. M. Bastos, Patrick D. Neilands, Rebecca S. Hassall, Byung C. Lim, Alex H. Taylor, 2021

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Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"

Partner intimate touch is associated with increased interpersonal closeness, especially in non-romantic partners

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Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)

Circle of Willis (hosted by Jim Coan)

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Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)

Paul Bloom | Department of Psychology

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Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)

Richard Dawkins on Twitter: 'Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.'

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Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)

James, W. (1890) The Principles of Psychology, Chapter 24 (Instinct) [yorku.ca]

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Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)

Potato Head Tweet from Hasbro

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Episode 208: Dream Theater

6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published for racist images

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Episode 208: Dream Theater

David Pizarro on Twitter: 'Does anyone have a recommendation for a good paper on the psychology or philosophy of dreams (that isn't a Freudian/psychoanalytic) take? Would love a recent review of psych/neuro theories of dreams, or just an intriguing take on any aspect of dreaming.'

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Episode 208: Dream Theater

Enter the Supersensorium | Erik Hoel

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Episode 208: Dream Theater

The Overfitted Brain

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Episode 208: Dream Theater

Erik Hoel's website

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Episode 208: Dream Theater

Ex Colorado City mayor catching heat for comments about citizens affected by cold | KTAB - BigCountryHomepage.com

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Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray

The Hard Problem of Breakfast - Issue 88: Love & Sex - Nautilus

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Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia

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Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Hell Is the Absence of God - Wikipedia

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Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Scariest Movies of All Time - Based on Science! | The Science Of Scare | Broadbandchoices

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Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

New Study Finds that Delivering the News with Humor Makes Young Adults More Likely to Remember and Share | Annenberg School for Communication

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Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging

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Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

Who is 'Bean Dad'? Twitter users slam John Roderick for can opener stunt with his hungry daughter | Daily Mail Online

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Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)

An Apology — John Roderick

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Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)

Opinion | I Don’t Want You to ‘Believe’ Me. I Want You to Listen. - The New York Times

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Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?

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Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

Gorgias (dialogue) - Wikipedia

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Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

Study links some forms of spiritual training to narcissism and 'spiritual superiority'

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Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")

Conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

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Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

Conspiracy Theories: Evolved Functions and Psychological Mechanisms - Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Mark van Vugt, 2018

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Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories - Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton, Aleksandra Cichocka, 2017

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Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom

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Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

Rex 84 - Wikipedia

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Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

The Great 5G Conspiracy - The Atlantic

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Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

Hole -- from Wolfram MathWorld

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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

Davis, J.T.M., Hines, M. How Large Are Gender Differences in Toy Preferences? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Toy Preference Research. Arch Sex Behav 49, 373–394 (2020).

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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

Fine, C., & Rush, E. (2018). “Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?” The ethics and science of the gendered toy marketing debate. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(4), 769-784.

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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

Stove, D. (1990). The intellectual capacity of women.

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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

Help train your child's brain according to gender | Express.co.uk

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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

[OC] I asked 1.6k people how many holes certain objects have. : dataisbeautiful

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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

Ferguson, Z. (2020). A song turned sideways would sound as sweet. Analysis.

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Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

Markosian, N. (2020). Sideways music. Analysis, 80(1), 51-59.

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Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

Hannan, S. (2018). Why childhood is bad for children. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 35, 11-28.

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Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater

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Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")

Venus Might Host Life, New Discovery Suggests - Scientific American

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Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

Pentagon forming a task force to investigate UFO sightings - CNNPolitics

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Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

Possible Girls

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Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

Informal Teaching Advice

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Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

Repeating the “F” word can improve threshold for pain during an ice water challenge

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Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

Frontiers | Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words | Psychology

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Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

Very Bad Wizards has a new shirt! [CottonBureau.com]

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Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person by Harry Frankfurt

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Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

'My Little Pony' Fans Confront Their Nazi Problem - The Atlantic

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Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Wikipedia

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Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

The Brothers Karmazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

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Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger? | The Nation

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Episode 191: All the Rage

Srinivasan, A. (2018) The Aptness of Anger, Journal of Political Philosophy. Reprinted in the Philosopher’s Annual.

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Episode 191: All the Rage

On Bullshit

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Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)

Anal retentiveness - Wikipedia

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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Anal expulsiveness - Wikipedia

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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Psychosexual development - Wikipedia

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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Civilization and Its Discontents - Wikipedia

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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

George Mason University investigation faults professor for sexual talk with students in class and a hot tub, court records show - The Washington Post

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Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

Frontiers | Friends, Lovers or Nothing: Men and Women Differ in Their Perceptions of Sex Robots and Platonic Love Robots | Psychology

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Episode 187: More Zither

Are two spaces better than one? | Butterick’s Practical Typography

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Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer

Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary [thanks to listener Kevin Litman-Navarro]

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Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer

Peter Singer - Wikipedia

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Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer

A Gadfly for the Greater Good (Tamler's interview of Singer in his 'A Very Bad Wizard' book)

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Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer

Is Pansexuality Obligatory? – The Electric Agora

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Episode 185: The Devil's Playground

In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell | Harper's Magazine

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Episode 185: The Devil's Playground

“The Meritocracy Trap,” explained - Vox

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Episode 185: The Devil's Playground

Richard Dawkins slammed for saying 'of course' eugenics would work - Washington Times

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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

MercatorNet: Twitter piles on Richard Dawkins over eugenics tweet

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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

Astros cheating scandal had to result in historic punishment - Sports Illustrated

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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

Sign-stealing [wikipedia.org]

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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

How Much Of The Astros’ Legacy Is Now In Doubt? | FiveThirtyEight

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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

Does José Altuve’s Bad Tattoo Explain His ALCS Home Run Celebration? - The Ringer

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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

The Astros’ Apology Tour Is Off to a Comically Disastrous Start - The Ringer

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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

Gods And Victims | The New Yorker

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Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)

The Generalizability Crisis

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Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through beta testing platforms - The Verge

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Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

The 20% Statistician: Review of 'The Generalizability Crisis' by Tal Yarkoni [Daniël Lakens' Blog]

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Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

In defense of external invalidity. American psychologist, 38(4), 379.

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Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

What is Baby Yoda? | TechRadar

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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Keanu Reeves Is Too Good for This World | The New Yorker

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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

'Joker' is first R-rated movie to make $1 billion at global box office - Business Insider

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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Kanye West’s 'Jesus Is King' Divides the Christian Community | Time

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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

How Often Do Women Talk in Quentin Tarantino Films? | Time

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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

The Real Question | Fiction Writers Review

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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

When Your Lizard Brain Burns You Out And Short-Circuits Your Career

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Triune brain - Wikipedia

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Cesario, J., Johnson, D. J., & Eisthen, H. (2019). Your Brain Is Not an Onion with a Tiny Reptile Inside.

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

David talks Watchmen on the Pretty Much Pop Podcast

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Tamler Sommers Talks Honor on Stoa Podcast

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon - Wikipedia

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon (1950) | The Criterion Collection

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon | The Current | The Criterion Collection

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon Analysis - Rashomon's Problem with Truth | Topic

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Every Frame A Painting: The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - The Geometry of a Scene - YouTube

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 144, 125-144.

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Episode 179: Talking Shit

Trash-talking and trolling. Human Nature, 29(3), 353-369.

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Episode 179: Talking Shit

El Zahir - Sufi theme in Jorge Luis Borges's writing | Technology of the Heart

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Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

The Most Famous Coin in Borges

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Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

Fiske, A. P. (2019). The lexical fallacy in emotion research: Mistaking vernacular words for psychological entities. Psychological review.

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Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

Natural Kinds (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

Opinion | Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out - The New York Times

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation | Cosmos

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Nagel, T. (1971). Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness. /Synthese/, /22/(3), 396-413.

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

CGP Grey video - You Are Two

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Split brains - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Gazzaniga, M. S. (1995). Principles of human brain organization derived from split-brain studies. /Neuron/, /14/(2), 217-228.

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Split brain: divided perception but undivided consciousness | Brain | Oxford Academic

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Interaction in isolation: 50 years of insights from split-brain research | Brain | Oxford Academic

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Dennett, D. C. (2014). The self as the center of narrative gravity. In /Self and consciousness/ (pp. 111-123). Psychology Press.

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

What is it Like to be a Bat?

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Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)

Richard Brody Reviews 'Joker' | New Yorker

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

People with high moral standards 'less likely' to be funny | The Independent

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Why So Serious? Experimental and Field Evidence that Morality and a Sense of Humor are Psychologically Incompatible. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

The self-importance of moral identity. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(6), 1423.

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

What's Expected of Us by Ted Chiang | Nature

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Eddy Nahmias, Close calls and the confident agent: Free will, deliberation, and alternative possibilities - PhilPapers

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Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]

Does Free Will Exist? Neuroscience Can't Disprove It Yet. - The Atlantic

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Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action by Benjamin Libet

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Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Neuroscience of free will - Wikipedia

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Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Environmentalists are Wrong: Nature Isn’t Sacred and We Should Replace It - Transhumanist Wager

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Transhumanism - Wikipedia

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

The Book of Job (New International Version)

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Book of Job - Wikipedia

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Who really wrote the Book of Job? - Jewish World - Haaretz - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Satan - Wikipedia

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Morriston, W. (1996). God's answer to Job. Religious studies, 32(3), 339-356.

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Misery | The New Yorker

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Power Washing Porn

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Opinion | Why We Call Things ‘Porn’ - The New York Times

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Pizarro, D.A., & Baumeister, R. (2013) Superhero comics as moral pornography. In R. Rosenberg (Ed.) Our Superheroes, Ourselves. Oxford University Press.

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Rozin, P. (2001). Social psychology and science: Some lessons from Solomon Asch. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5(1), 2-14.

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

2nd Annual BEworks Summit for Behavioural Science in Business

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Life is short, stay awake: Death anxiety and bedtime procrastination. - PubMed - NCBI

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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

2nd Annual BEworks Summit for Behavioural Science in Business

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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

On Translating Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” | The New Yorker

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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

Internet troll - Wikipedia

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Ken M Is The Most Epic Troll On The Internet

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Wrestling’s new villain named himself ‘Progressive Liberal.’ Hillary’s on his shirt. - The Washington Post

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

‘Big Lebowski’ Sequel Renamed ‘The Jesus Rolls,’ Plans 2020 Release | IndieWire

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Meryl Streep: 'We hurt our boys by calling something 'toxic masculinity''

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Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

Deadwood: EB Farnum At Work

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Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

Apple won't let its in-house philosopher talk to the press — Quartz

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Episode 164: Choosing to Believe

The Will to Believe - Wikipedia

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Episode 164: Choosing to Believe

Evidentialism - Wikipedia

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Episode 164: Choosing to Believe

Resource Security Impacts Men’s Female Breast Size Preferences

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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Peez on Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”

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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

We Are All Confident Idiots - Pacific Standard

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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Dunning, D. (2011). The Dunning–Kruger effect: On being ignorant of one's own ignorance. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 44, pp. 247-296). Academic Press.

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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion | Aeon Essays

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Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes

How to Live As an Antinatalist: 11 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

Suing your parents for being born has philosophical support — Quartz

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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him - BBC News

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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

Butler, P. D. (2012). Poor people lose: Gideon and the critique of rights. Yale LJ, 122, 2176.

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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

Butler, P. (2010). Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice. The New Press. Chicago

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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

Gideon v. Wainwright - Wikipedia

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Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

Melnikoff, D. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2018). The mythical number two. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 280-293.

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Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

The Annals of the TERF-Wars | Jane Clare Jones

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Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

Feldman Barrett's theory of constructed emotion - Wikipedia

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Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

Dual process theory - Wikipedia

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Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

'Traditional Masculinity' Can Be Harmful, Psychologists Find - The Atlantic

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Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)

APA ‘Masculinity’ Guidelines Face a Title IX Challenge at Harvard University, for Discriminating Against Men in Psychology

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Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)

Vertigo (film) - Wikipedia

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Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot

Vertigo | Scanners | Roger Ebert

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Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot

Is a hole a real thing, or just a place where something isn’t? | Aeon Ideas

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Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")

2018 Sanders Philosophy of Mind Prize Winner - Daily Nous

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Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Experiencing Left and Right in a Non-Orientable World by Jonathan Simon

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Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Very Bad Wizards is on Reddit

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Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Large scale replication project finds that one of Dave's and colleagues' most cited findings (association between disgust sensitivity and homophobia) is not real. : VeryBadWizards

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Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

OSF | Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Sample and Setting

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Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas.’ Cue the Outcry. - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Episode 152: Ruthlessness, Public and Private

A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikipedia

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Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

COTO - Re-interpreting Alex's Violence in A Clockwork Orange

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Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

A Clockwork Orange | Film Review | Slant Magazine

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Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

Proposed 'sex robot brothel' blocked by Houston city council

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Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots

‘Sokal Squared’: Is Huge Publishing Hoax ‘Hilarious and Delightful’ or an Ugly Example of Dishonesty and Bad Faith? - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots

There’s a big problem with immortality: it goes on and on | Aeon Essays

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Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

Goranson, A., Ritter, R. S., Waytz, A., Norton, M. I., & Gray, K. (2017). Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive. Psychological Science, 28(7), 988-999.

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Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

Williams, B. (1973). The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality (pp. pp-82).

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Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

US Open 2018: Serena Williams’ fight with umpire Carlos Ramos, explained - Vox

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Episode 148: Am I Wrong?

Tamler tweets

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Episode 148: Am I Wrong?

Sher, G. (2001). But I could be wrong. Social Philosophy and Policy, 18(2), 64-78.

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Episode 148: Am I Wrong?

A Crying Shame: The 2018 US Open Will Only be Remembered for Serena by Cindy Shmerler (tennis.com)

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Episode 148: Am I Wrong?

Martina Navratilova: What Serena Got Wrong (NY Times)

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Episode 148: Am I Wrong?

The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life - The Atlantic

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Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

Moral uncertainty - Effective Altruism Concepts

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Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

80,000 Hours: How to make a difference with your career

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Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

Giving What We Can

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Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology - The New York Times

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Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

British economists prove it: Sports destroy happiness - The Washington Post

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Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

Dolton, P., & MacKerron, G. (2018). Is football a matter of life and death - or is it more important than that?

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Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

mappiness, the happiness mapping app

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Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

A Labyrinth of Symbols: Exploring 'The Garden of Forking Paths'

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Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden

I. Y. Yunioshi - Wikipedia

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

Eddie Murphy: White Like Me (SNL)

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

Scarlett Johansson Withdraws from Controversial Role as a Trans Man Following Backlash

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

Neuroskeptic on Twitter: 'Democrats were least likely to use Ashley Madison, Libertarians were most likely, and Republicans, Greens, and unaffiliated voters were in between.'

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

The Ethics of Research on Leaked Data: Ashley Madison - Neuroskeptic

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

Break Music: Nas Is Like (peez remix)

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

The Library of Babel - Wikipedia

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel by William Goldbloom Bloch

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon

Testing Inter-hemispheric Social Priming Theory in a Sample of Professional Politicians-A Brief Report

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Gary Lewis on Twitter: "I submitted a hoax manuscript to a predatory journal. The finding? Politicians from the right wipe their ass with their left hand (and vice versa) - big breakthrough! Manuscript accepted w/o review. I then haggled the OA fee down to $0 - so here it is -> https://t.co/SnozmgFgRJ"

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Break Music: Thief's Theme (peez remix)

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Personality and Social Dynamics Lab | Sanjay Srivastava

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Simine Vazire

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

The Black Goat – A podcast about doing science

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia — Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

The Big Five Personality Traits & what they mean for your Political Views. | elephant journal

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

HEXACO model of personality structure - Wikipedia

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator - Wikipedia

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Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality

Stanford Prison Experiment: why famous psychology studies are now being torn apart - Vox

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Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)

The Lifespan of a Lie – Trust Issues – Medium

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Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)

Reicher, S., & Haslam, S. A. (2006). Rethinking the psychology of tyranny: The BBC prison study. British journal of social psychology, 45(1), 1-40.

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Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)

Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part One) | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog

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Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)

Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D., Director | Nock Lab

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Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)

Cha, C. B., Franz, P. J., M. Guzmán, E., Glenn, C. R., Kleiman, E. M., & Nock, M. K. (2018). Annual Research Review: Suicide among youth–epidemiology,(potential) etiology, and treatment. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 59(4), 460-482.

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Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)

Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web - The New York Times

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Psychology’s Racism-Measuring Tool Isn’t Up to the Job -- Science of Us

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Implicit-association test - Wikipedia

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Take the Implicit Associations Test (IAT)

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Greenwald, A. G., Poehlman, T. A., Uhlmann, E. L., & Banaji, M. R. (2009). Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: III. Meta-analysis of predictive validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(1), 17.

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P. E. (2013). Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: A meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies. Journal of personality and social psychology, 105(2), 171.

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Nock, M. K., & Banaji, M. R. (2007). Prediction of suicide ideation and attempts among adolescents using a brief performance-based test. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 75(5), 707.

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Uhlmann, E. L., Pizarro, D. A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Varieties of social cognition. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(3), 293-322.

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Episode 141: Implicit Bias

Neuroskeptic - Wikipedia

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic) | Twitter

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

Neuroskeptic's Blog for Discover Magazine

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

@Neuro_skeptic: 'If one post sums me up'

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

Two Psychologists Four Beers

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

Tatter (podcast)

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

The Political Theory Review by Jeffrey Church on Apple Podcasts

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

Bostyn, D. H., Sevenhant, S., & Roets, A. (2018). Of Mice, Men, and Trolleys: Hypothetical Judgment Versus Real-Life Behavior in Trolley-Style Moral Dilemmas. Psychological Science, 0956797617752640.

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Episode 140: Milgram's Mice

Berger, P. (1970). On the Obsolescence of the Concept of Honor. European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie/Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie, 11(2), 339-347.

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Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts

Materazzi finally admits what he said to Zidane in the World Cup Final | For The Win

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Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts

Nichols, S., Strohminger, N., Rai, A., & Garfield, J. (2018). Death and the self. Cognitive science.

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Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols)

Laurie Santos | Comparative Cognition Laboratory

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Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)

Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness - The New York Times

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Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)

Psychology and The Good Life 2018 Course Syllabus

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Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)

Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment | TED Talk

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Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)

Character Strength Survey

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Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)

Protesters try to shut down Christina Hoff Sommers at Lewis & Clark Law School - YouTube

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Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity

Statement on the Christina Hoff Sommers Event at the Law School - Newsroom - Lewis & Clark

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Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity

We’re All Fascists Now - The New York Times

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Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity

Williams, B. 'Consequentialism and Integrity' [published originally in 'Utilitarianism: For and Against', ed. Smart and Williams (Cambridge University Press, 1973), pp. 82-118.]

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Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity

Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2017). Is pulling the lever sexy? Deontology as a downstream cue to long-term mate quality. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 0265407517749331.

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Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)

Crockett, M. J. (2017). Moral outrage in the digital age. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(11), 769.

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Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)

Tommy Westphall - Wikipedia

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Episode 133: Death and Dreams

20 Years Ago: 'Newhart' ends with a shock | EW.com

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Episode 133: Death and Dreams

Dallas (1978 TV series) (season 9) - Wikipedia

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Episode 133: Death and Dreams

It's Just a Cartoon, How can SpongeBob and friends go to the beach if...

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Episode 133: Death and Dreams

Nagel, T. (1970). Death. Noûs, 73-80.

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Episode 133: Death and Dreams

How Utilitarian Are You? The Oxford Utilitarianism Scale | Practical Ethics

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Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)

Everett, J. A., Pizarro, D. A., Crockett, M. J. (2016). Inference of trustworthiness from intuitive moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 772–787

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Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)

Is Your Child Lying to You? That’s Good - The New York Times

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Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream

The Root of All Cruelty?

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Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

Our enemies are human: that’s why we want to kill them | Aeon Ideas

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Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

Letters of Note: 1984 v. Brave New World

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Episode 129: Dystopias

The Trial - Wikipedia

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Episode 129: Dystopias

It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia

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Episode 129: Dystopias

We’re at risk of turning #metoo into rush to blame all men - NY Daily News

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Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

Moral Luck

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Episode 127: Moral Luck

Moral Luck (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Episode 127: Moral Luck

Intentional stance

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Episode 127: Moral Luck

The Extent of Skin Bending Rather Than Action Possibilities Explains Why Holes Feel Larger With the Tongue Than With the Finger. - PubMed - NCBI

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Episode 126: The Absurd

Pure joy: a colorblind man sees color for the first time

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Episode 126: The Absurd

Dan Harmon Reveals the Meaning of Life in RICK AND MORTY | Nerdist

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Episode 126: The Absurd

Microcosmos - Dung beetle rolls ball and gets stuck. - YouTube

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Episode 126: The Absurd

Nagel, T. (1971). The absurd. The Journal of Philosophy, 68(20), 716-727.

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Episode 126: The Absurd

Camus, A. (1955). The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays. Vintage.

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Episode 126: The Absurd

Yale’s Paul Bloom to receive $1 million Klaus Jacobs Prize | YaleNews

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Episode 125: Can You Feel It?

Solomon, R. C. (1973). Emotions and choice. The Review of Metaphysics, 20-41.

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Episode 125: Can You Feel It?

What Emotions Are (and Aren’t) - The New York Times

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Episode 125: Can You Feel It?

Are Emotions Natural Kinds? Perspectives on Psychological Science - Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2006

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Episode 125: Can You Feel It?

Larsen, N. E., Lee, K., & Ganea, P. A. (2017). Do storybooks with anthropomorphized animal characters promote prosocial behaviors in young children?. Developmental Science.

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Children's books with humans have greater moral impact than animals, study finds | Books | The Guardian

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Strawson, G. (2004). Against narrativity. Ratio, 17(4), 428-452.

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Strawson, G. (2007). Episodic ethics. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 60, 85-115.

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Parfit, D. (1995). The unimportance of identity.

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

I am Not a Story

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Race & IQ: Debate Serves No Purpose | National Review

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Returning to the race and IQ debate | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn Show] - YouTube

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Race & IQ: Don’t Obsess Over It, but Do Discuss It | National Review

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Templeton, A. R. (1998). Human races: a genetic and evolutionary perspective. American Anthropologist, 100(3), 632-650. Chicago

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Study Finds Africans More Genetically Diverse Than Other Populations

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Human penis size - Wikipedia

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

What Does Your Dog Really Want? - Scientific American Blog Network

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Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)

Everything you were afraid to ask about “Mulholland Drive” - Salon.com

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Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"

Film Crit Hulk Smash: HULK VS. THE GENIUS OF MULHOLLAND DRIVE | Birth.Movies.Death.

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Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"

Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires - Vox

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Episode 119: A Brief History of Values

Doris, J. M. (2009). Genealogy and Evidence: Prinz on the History of Morals.

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Episode 119: A Brief History of Values

Kahane, G. (2011). Evolutionary debunking arguments. Noûs, 45(1), 103-125.

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Episode 119: A Brief History of Values

The Splintered Mind: Tamler Sommers

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Episode 119: A Brief History of Values

The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies

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Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax

Some Thoughts on “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” Hoax

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Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax

Gay man, who suffered from depression over his circumcision, kills himself

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Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins

Circumcision’s Psychological Damage | Psychology Today

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Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins

Foreskin restoration for circumcised males

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Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins

Distributed cognition - Wikipedia

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Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins

Skeptic » Reading Room » The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Sokal affair - Wikipedia

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Why the 'Conceptual Penis' Hoax is Just a Big Cock Up. - Bleeding Heart Libertarians

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

The engine of irrationality inside the rationalists – Ketan Joshi

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

An embarrassing moment for the skeptical movement – Footnotes to Plato

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Bartoshuk, L. (2014). The measurement of pleasure and pain. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 91-93.

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Krueger, A. B., & Stone, A. A. (2014). Progress in measuring subjective well-being. Science, 346(6205), 42-43.

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Jay Van Bavel on Twitter: Psychologists: our field is a hot mess Philosophers: hold my beer

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

EP. 86 SAM HARRIS Part #1 by #WeThePeople LIVE | Free Listening on SoundCloud

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Issues in the Profession

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The real damage done by the flare-up over a philosopher's journal article (essay)

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The Nastic Gospels | Peez

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Brian Nosek's Reproducibility Project Finds Many Psychology Studies Unreliable - The Atlantic

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Inside Psychology’s ‘Methodological Terrorism’ Debate -- Science of Us

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Replication studies: Bad copy : Nature News & Comment

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Repeat After Me - by Maki Naro

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

sometimes i'm wrong [Simine Vazire's blog]

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The Hardest Science [Sanjay Srivastava's Blog]

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The 20% Statistician [Daniël Lakens' Blog]

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The Black Goat – A podcast about doing science

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

You Are Not So Smart

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The price of freedom | OUPblog

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Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Progressive Family Unable to Finish Game of 'Guess Who?'

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Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

2017 BP MS 150: Mr. Tamler Sommers - National MS Society

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Prose&Cons - YouTube

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Why people are so bad at thinking about the future.

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

On Intertemporal Selfishness: How the Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption | Journal of Consumer Research | Oxford Academic

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Homer's Soul by Paul Bloom and David Pizarro

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Pascal's Wager - Wikipedia

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Pascal's mugging - Wikipedia

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul, in conversation with Paul Bloom.

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Transformative Experience: by L. A. Paul

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Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

The idea of monogamy as a relationship ideal is based on flawed science — Quartz

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

A Former Student Says UC Berkeley’s Star Philosophy Professor Groped Her And Watched Porn At Work - BuzzFeed News

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

About - The Casual Sex Project

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

The Woman With an Alternative Theory of Hookups -- The Cut

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Clark, R. D., & Hatfield, E. (1989). Gender differences in receptivity to sexual offers. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 2(1), 39-55.

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Research - The Gottman Institute

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Break music: Shadow Play by peez

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Brock Jarrett on Twitter: 'I was shocked to meet a podcast hero at a coffee shop in Denver. @tamler @verybadwizards https://t.co/4WBdqhUw8t'

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

#BONUS – “Dr. David Pizarro from Very Bad Wizards.” - I Doubt It with Dollemore

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

A Good Cause: Sponsor Tamler in the 2017 BP MS 150

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Gettier, E. L. (1963). Is justified true belief knowledge?. analysis, 23(6), 121-123.

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Frankfurt cases - Wikipedia

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Evil demon - Wikipedia

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

The Long Road to Skepticism on JSTOR

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Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Who's afraid of the big bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic differences in temporal language and thought. Language learning, 58(s1), 63-79. Chicago

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Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Inscrutability of reference - Wikipedia

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Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Sex-related differences in the color lexicon

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Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

The United States Top Searches – Pornhub Insights

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Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury - The Atlantic

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Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Understanding the Angry Mob at Middlebury That Gave Me a Concussion - The New York Times

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Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Cornell University Students Vote Against Intellectual Diversity, on Grounds It Would Harm Diversity - Hit & Run : Reason.com

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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

Child sex doll trial opens Pandora's box of questions about child porn - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News

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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

The 96 hours that brought down Milo Yiannopoulos - The Washington Post

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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

Age of Consent - by Jesse Bering - The Stranger

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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

Wolf, S. (1992). Two levels of pluralism. Ethics, 102(4), 785-798.

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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

Value Pluralism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

Yo, Judío by Jorge Luis Borges

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Episode 109: Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube

The Real Problem With Hypocrisy - The New York Times

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Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Why Do We Hate Hypocrites? Evidence for a Theory of False Signaling by Jillian J. Jordan, Roseanna Sommers, Paul Bloom, David G. Rand :: SSRN

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Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Thrill of the chaste: The truth about Gandhi's sex life | The Independent

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Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Latino - Wikipedia

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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Bakersfield, California - Wikipedia

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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Situationism (psychology) - Wikipedia

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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Action theory (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Gary Watson - USC Gould School of Law

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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Break Beat

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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

The Social Constitution of Responsible Agency: Oppression, Politics, and Moral Ecology

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Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known? | Edge.org

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Edge.org - Brian Eno 'The Confirmation Bias'

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Edge.org - Daniel Rockmore 'The Trolley Problem'

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Edge.org - Michael Gazzaniga 'The Schnitt'

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Edge.org - Sean Carroll 'Bayes' Theorem'

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Edge.org - Lisa Randall 'Effective Theory'

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Tosi, J., & Warmke, B. (2016). Moral Grandstanding. [full text preprint]

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Gross Anatomy: In This Political Climate, When Are We Right to Feel Disgusted? | News & City Life | Houstonia

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Minson, J. A., & Monin, B. (2012). Do-gooder derogation disparaging morally motivated minorities to defuse anticipated reproach. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(2), 200-207.

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Acknowledgement of Traditional Aboriginal Territory in British Columbia | Safe Harbour - Respect for All

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Leave Britney Alone (Complete)

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Newman, G. E., & Cain, D. M. (2014). Tainted Altruism When Doing Some Good Is Evaluated as Worse Than Doing No Good at All. Psychological science, 25(3), 648-655.

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Episode 106: American Grandstand

Why sexual desire is objectifying – and hence morally wrong | Aeon Ideas

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Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

Co-reactive attitudes and the making of moral community Final MS, forthcoming in In Emotions, Imagination and Moral Reasoning, eds., C. MacKenzie & R. Langdon. Macquarie monographs in Cognitive Science. Psychology Press, 2010.

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Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

Roskies, A. (2006). Neuroscientific challenges to free will and responsibility. Trends in cognitive sciences, 10(9), 419-423.

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Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

Greene, J., & Cohen, J. (2004). For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 359(1451), 1775-85.

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Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

Pizarro, D.A. & Helzer, E. (2010). Freedom of the will and stubborn moralism. In Baumeister, R.F., A.R. Mele, and K. D. Vohs (Eds.) Free will and consciousness: How might they work? (pp. 101-120) Oxford University Press.

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Episode 105: Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes

Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain - The New York Times

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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Gross Anatomy | News & City Life | Houstonia

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Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias

Very Bad Wizards is creating a Biweekly Podcast | Patreon

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Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias

Wes Alwan's Facebook post about the election

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Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue

Glenn Greenwald on Who’s to Blame for Trump’s Election

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Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue

What So Many People Don't Get About the US Working Class by Joan Williams

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Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue

I Will Never Underestimate White People's Need to Preserve Whiteness Again

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Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue

Charlie Brooker Shares 'San Junipero' Playlist from Black Mirror

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Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue

Mr. Robot Virtual Reality Experience

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Episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue

Oregon Student Government: Dressing Up as Any Character Is Cultural Appropriation, Not Okay - Hit & Run : Reason.com

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Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too

Russell, P. (2008). Free will, art and morality. The Journal of ethics, 12(3-4), 307-325. [academia.edu]

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Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too

Moral Machine

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Episode 100: It's a Celebration

Garfield Minus Garfield

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Episode 100: It's a Celebration

Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect

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Episode 100: It's a Celebration

False-positive psychology undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant

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Episode 100: It's a Celebration

Mob Rule or the Wisdom of Crowds?

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Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

Andrew Gelman's blog post

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Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

Why most published research findings are false.

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Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

The Dogmatic Slumber of Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Episode 98: Mind the Gap

Hume's Moral Philosophy

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Episode 98: Mind the Gap

Is-ought problem

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Episode 98: Mind the Gap

GE Moore's Moral Philosophy

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Episode 98: Mind the Gap

Open-question argument

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Episode 98: Mind the Gap

The Naturalistic Fallacy

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Episode 98: Mind the Gap

Reflections on Rationalia

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Episode 97: Dogmatic Slumber Party

Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government

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Episode 97: Dogmatic Slumber Party

Motivated skepticism: Use of differential decision criteria for preferred and nonpreferred conclusions

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Episode 97: Dogmatic Slumber Party

The Berenstein Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe

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Bonus Episode: More Doobie-ous Theories About "Mr. Robot" (Season 2)

On the Berenstein Bears Switcheroo

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Bonus Episode: More Doobie-ous Theories About "Mr. Robot" (Season 2)

The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why we should ban the cloning of humans

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Episode 95: The Repugnance of Repugnance

Yuck: The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust

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Episode 95: The Repugnance of Repugnance

On disgust and moral judgment

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Episode 95: The Repugnance of Repugnance

The Stupidity of Dignity

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Episode 95: The Repugnance of Repugnance

Effective altruism

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Episode 94: Buttery Friendships

Nancy Sherman 'Navigating our Moral World.'

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Episode 94: Buttery Friendships

On that one awkward sex scene from The Americans

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Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

Scandinavia

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Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by Redskins name

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Episode 92: Jonathan Edwards' Basement

The conscience of Huckleberry Finn

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Episode 92: Jonathan Edwards' Basement

Nothing more than feelings?: The role of emotions in moral judgment

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Episode 92: Jonathan Edwards' Basement

Machine Bias

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Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines

Mission Impossible: African-Americans & Analytics

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Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines

If babies were randomly allocated to families, would racism end?

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Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals

Morals and markets

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Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals

Sociology faculty member publishes book chapter

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Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)

Penn State retracts press release about sociologist reviewing an article.

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Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)

A very confusing paragraph

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Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)

Congratulations, you have an all male panel!

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Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)

Racists getting fired

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Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)

We Must Do Everything We Can For The Children Vs. Can't Someone Else Do It?

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Episode 88: A Doobie for Elijah

George Rainbolt's review of 'The Right to be Loved' by Matthew Liao

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Episode 88: A Doobie for Elijah

Marijuana is Kosher

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Episode 88: A Doobie for Elijah

Inference of Trustworthiness from Intuitive Moral Judgments

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Episode 87: Lucky You (with Robert Frank)

Detecting the trustworthiness of novel partners in economic exchange

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Episode 87: Lucky You (with Robert Frank)

University of Houston Faculty Devises Pointers on How to Avoid Getting Shot by Armed Students

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Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment

A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students

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Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment

What do alternative sanctions mean?

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Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment

The Doomsday Machine

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Mr. Skin

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Rawls and Pascal’s Wager

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Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Moral Foundations Questionnaire (30-item)

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Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history

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Episode 83: Ego Trip

In Wisconsin, Efforts to End Taunting at Games Lead to Claims of Coddling

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Episode 82: Totalitarian Slide-Rulers

The Power of the Power Pose: Amy Cuddy's Famous Finding is the Latest Example of Scientific Overreach

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Episode 82: Totalitarian Slide-Rulers

Positive and Negative Liberty

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Episode 82: Totalitarian Slide-Rulers

Fear in the Air, Americans Look Over Their Shoulders

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Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

The Coddling of the American Mind

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Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

CDS Appropriates Asian Dishes, Students Say

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Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation

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Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

Cell Phones, iPods, and Subjective Well-Being

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Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

Desire theories of well-being

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Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

The New Intolerance of Student Activism

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Episode 78: Wizards Uprising

President Peter Salovey's statement to Yale community

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Episode 78: Wizards Uprising

2015 University of Missouri Protests

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Episode 78: Wizards Uprising

Amherst College Uprising (with list of demands)

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Episode 78: Wizards Uprising

Why Self-Driving Cars Must be Programmed to Kill

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

Autonomous Vehicles Need Experimental Ethics: Are We Ready for Utilitarian Cars?

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

The Philosophical Problem of Killing Baby Hitler

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

Why it's Unethical to Go Back in Time and Kill Baby Hitler

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

Ethical Expressivism

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Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes

Moral Anti-Realism

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Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes

John Hodgman on the hot dog/sandwich debate

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Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes

Perspectives on P.F. Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment'

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Episode 76: Cha-Cha-changes

Report Claims American Psychological Association Secretly Supported Torture Policy

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Episode 67: Funny How?

The philosophy of humor

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Episode 67: Funny How?

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life

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Episode 63: Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris)

Value Pluralism

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Episode 63: Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris)

Altruistic punishment in humans

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Episode 62: Brain Jizz and "Black Mirror"

Fairness violations elicit greater punishment on behalf of another than for oneself

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Episode 62: Brain Jizz and "Black Mirror"

Billie Pritchett on the Sam Harris and Free Will discussion

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Episode 61: Putting a Little Meaning in Your Life

Daniel Dennett reviews 'Free Will' by Sam Harris

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Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)

Sam Harris responds to Dennett's Review of 'Free Will'

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Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)