Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 85
Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to …
10 years, 6 months ago
Lifting the Veil
Episode 84
David and Tamler talk about the perils of trying to step outside of your own perspective in ethics, science, and politics. What do Rawls' "original p…
10 years, 7 months ago
Ego Trip
Episode 83
David and Tamler continue their series of breaking down a classic essay/article in their fields. For this installment, David assigns Tamler Anthony G…
10 years, 7 months ago
Totalitarian Slide-Rulers
Episode 82
David and Tamler take a break from their main jobs as TV critics to talk about a masterpiece in political philosophy: "Two Concepts of Liberty" by Is…
10 years, 8 months ago
Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar)
Episode 81
Hello, listener. Hello, listener? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name, but that's a slippery slope. You're only in my head. Or maybe we're in…
10 years, 8 months ago
The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)
Episode 80
It's our last episode on campus protests and political correctness for a while, we promise! But it's a fun one. David and Tamler welcome two guests …
10 years, 9 months ago
Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)
Episode 79
Special guest Valerie Tiberius joins us to talk about values, well-being, and friendship. What role should reflection play in the good life? What abo…
10 years, 9 months ago
Wizards Uprising
Episode 78
David and Tamler return to the minefield of campus politics and talk about recent events at Yale, Missouri, and Amherst. Are the protests are long ov…
10 years, 10 months ago
On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
Episode 77
Special guest Eric Schwitzgebel joins David and Tamler to discuss the moral behavior (or lack thereof) of ethicists. Does moral reflection make us be…
10 years, 10 months ago
Cha-Cha-changes
Episode 76
David and Tamler list three things they've changed their minds about in their careers. (This episode was recorded before Episode 75, but that one was…
10 years, 11 months ago