Books
Books discussed on the Very Bad Wizards podcast.
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Book - Flannery O'Connor
Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find")
Book - Haruki Murakami
Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)
Book - Cormac McCarthy
Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")
Book - Friedrich Nietzsche
Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
Book - Leo Tolstoy
Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
Book - Haruki Murakami
Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
Book - Jorge Luis Borges
Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Book - Thomas Kuhn
Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
Stories of Your Life and Others
Book - Ted Chiang
Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")
Book - William James
Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
Book - Thomas Szasz
Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")
Book - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Book - Jorge Luis Borges
Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")
Book - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")
Book - Harry Frankfurt
Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)
Civilization and its Discontents
Book - Sigmund Freud
Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Book - Friedrich Nietzsche
Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
Utilitarianism: A very short introduction
Book - Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer
The life you can save: How to do your part to end world poverty
Book - Peter Singer
Book - Thomas Nagel
Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
Book - Ted Chiang
Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
Book - Ted Chiang
Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]
Book - Ursula K. Le Guin
Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice
Book - Paul Butler
Book - William MacAskill
Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)
Book - Tamler Sommers
Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Book - Tamler Sommers
Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols)
Utilitarianism: For and against
Book - J. J. C. Smart, Bernard Williams
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Book - Dave Grossman
Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)
Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
Book - Alan Fiske and Tage Rai
Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Book - Kate Manne
Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)
Book - Thomas Nagel
Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)
A Very Bad Wizard: Morality behind the curtain
Book - Tamler Sommers
Intelligence: All that matters
Book - Stuart Ritchie
Book - Andy Clark and David Chalmers
Book - Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
Book - Paul Bloom
Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
Yuck!: the nature and moral significance of disgust
Book - D. Kelly
A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain
Book - Tamler Sommers
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
Book - Robert Frank
Book - Christina Hoff Sommers
Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)
Book - Christina Hoff Sommers
Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)
Meaning in Life and Why it Matters
Book - Susan Wolf