Podcast Episodes

Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

Episode 301

It's Back 2 Basics: Psychology edition! Do coins look bigger to poor people? Do hills look steeper to people wearing heavy backpacks? What's the diff…

1 year, 7 months ago

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Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain

Episode 300

David and Tamler celebrate their 300th episode with a deep dive into the movie that inspired the podcast's title. Why is "The Wizard of Oz" the most …

1 year, 8 months ago

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Episode 299: Oh the Humility!

Episode 299

David and Tamler wrap up the new year talking about intellectual virtues and Rachel Fraser's excellent essay "Against Humility." What is intellectual…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe

Episode 298

Why do we punish people? How did our punishment practices evolve and what is their primary function? David and Tamler talk about a new paper that exa…

1 year, 9 months ago

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

Episode 297

David and Tamler face off with the Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's classic short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." We sort through the biblical allus…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Episode 296: The Other CRT

Episode 296

David and Tamler share a few brief thoughts on the election and then raise some questions about Tucker Carlson being attacked by a demon as he slept …

1 year, 10 months ago

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Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Episode 295

David and Tamler hop into their Scooby Van and drive into Tobe Hooper's mad and macabre horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.  How does this e…

1 year, 10 months ago

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

Episode 294

CD Broad called induction "the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy." As a matter of habit, we're all confident that the sun will rise tomo…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins")

Episode 293

David and Tamler crawl up a riverbank, kiss the mud, and dream a discussion of Borges' "The Circular Ruins." We sort through various interpretations …

2 years ago

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Episode 292: Boundary Issues

Episode 292

David and Tamler lead off with a breakdown of the new commercial for "friend (not imaginary)" a new AI necklace that takes hikes with you, interrupts…

2 years ago

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