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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Very Bad Wizards: Trolleys, Utilitarianism, and Psychopaths

Tamler Sommers
Very Bad Wizards Podcast

A philosopher and a psychologist ponder the nature of human morality

Published on October 20, 2012

Notes

Tamler contemplates ending it all because he can't get 'Call Me Maybe' out of his head, and Dave doesn't try to talk him out of it. This is followed by a discussion about drones, psychopaths, Canadians, Elle Fanning, horrible moral dilemmas, and the biggest rivalry in Ethics: utilitarians vs. Kantians.

Episode 6 page: Trolleys, Utilitarianism and Psychopaths

The podcast is here. 

Editorial notes: Very Bad Wizards is a series of podcasts that combine psychological and philosophical perspectives on a variety of topics.   In terms of informed consent, the language is rough and the humor is..........let's just say bawdy, crude and coarse.   Truly, the podcast is not for the faint of heart.

If you like this podcast, there are a variety of Very Bad Wizards podcasts.  While their brand of humor is part of the content, the episodes that I have found as potentially good teaching tools are found in the Audio and Video resource page of this site.

And, I have Tamler's picture on this page to help boost his self-esteem.  Apparently, he feels badly that his TEDx talk has less views that Dave Pizarro's TEDx talk.  Both of their TEDx  talks are also on the Audio and Video resource page.