Articles discussed on the Very Bad Wizards podcast.
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")
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The Children Who Remember Past Lives
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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)
A fascinating theory about the cultural influence of rice farming now has evidence of causality
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Large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice versus wheat agriculture
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When does “no” mean no? Insights from sex robots.
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Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")
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Best-Selling Author & Harvard Professor Steven Pinker Will Transform His Ideas into NFTs | Blockster
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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")
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")
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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")
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)
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A Psychological Perspective on Vicarious Embarrassment and Shame in the Context of Cringe Humor
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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)
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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")
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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").
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").
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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")
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People who are willing to try new foods are perceived as more desirable and less sexually restricted
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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")
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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)
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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")
Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging
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Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
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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")
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Hannan, S. (2018). Why childhood is bad for children. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 35, 11-28.
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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")
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")
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")
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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")
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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")
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 (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")
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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
Split brains - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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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
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)
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)
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Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]
Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action by Benjamin Libet
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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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")
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)
Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion | Aeon Essays
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Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes
Butler, P. D. (2012). Poor people lose: Gideon and the critique of rights. Yale LJ, 122, 2176.
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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
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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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
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Williams, B. (1973). The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality (pp. pp-82).
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A Crying Shame: The 2018 US Open Will Only be Remembered for Serena by Cindy Shmerler (tennis.com)
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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)
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Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)
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The Big Five Personality Traits & what they mean for your Political Views. | elephant journal
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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)
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Crockett, M. J. (2017). Moral outrage in the digital age. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(11), 769.
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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)
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)
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Are Emotions Natural Kinds? Perspectives on Psychological Science - Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2006
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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
Returning to the race and IQ debate | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn Show] - YouTube
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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"
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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?
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?
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
On that one awkward sex scene from The Americans
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Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)
University of Houston Faculty Devises Pointers on How to Avoid Getting Shot by Armed Students
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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)
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)