Ranked #1
Episode 75: A Golden Shower of Guests
Episode 75: A Golden Shower of Guests
Dave and Tamler celebrate their 75th episode by welcoming six BFFs of the podcast and asking them to share the biggest t... Read more
6 Oct 2015
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2hr 29mins
Ranked #2
Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz Kafka's masterful novel... Read more
30 Jul 2019
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1hr 50mins
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Ranked #3
Episode 84: Lifting the Veil
Episode 84: Lifting the Veil
David and Tamler talk about the perils of trying to step outside of your own perspective in ethics, science, and politic... Read more
23 Feb 2016
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1hr 33mins
Ranked #4
Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud’s world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges i... Read more
26 May 2020
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1hr 37mins
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Ranked #5
Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
David and Tamler discuss famous 'split brain' experiments pioneered by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga. What happens ... Read more
12 Nov 2019
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1hr 48mins
Ranked #6
Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-en... Read more
12 Mar 2016
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #7
Episode 78: Wizards Uprising
Episode 78: Wizards Uprising
David and Tamler return to the minefield of campus politics and talk about recent events at Yale, Missouri, and Amherst.... Read more
24 Nov 2015
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #8
Episode 81: Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar)
Episode 81: Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar)
Hello, listener. Hello, listener? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name, but that's a slippery slope. You're only ... Read more
12 Jan 2016
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1hr 47mins
Ranked #9
Episode 106: American Grandstand
Episode 106: American Grandstand
David and Tamler take a break from moral grandstanding to talk about moral grandstanding. How often do we moralize to ma... Read more
10 Jan 2017
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #10
Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
Eleventh Century Japan. A samurai and his wife are walking through the forest and come across a bandit. The bandit attac... Read more
14 Jan 2020
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1hr 56mins
Ranked #11
Episode 187: More Zither
Episode 187: More Zither
With a global pandemic and a collapsing economy upon us, it's time to ask ourselves some tough questions. Sex robots or ... Read more
21 Apr 2020
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1hr 40mins
Ranked #12
Episode 3: "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth)
Episode 3: "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth)
Tamler and Dave discuss recent work in philosophy and psychology about the differences in moral values and practices acr... Read more
8 Sep 2012
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1hr 1min
Ranked #13
Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Award-winning screenwriter and medieval philosophy scholar Yoel Inbar joins us for a deep dive on the Charlie Kaufman/Mi... Read more
24 Apr 2018
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1hr 45mins
Ranked #14
Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes
Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes
David and Tamler dive into the book of Ecclesiastes, an absurdist classic that is somehow also a book of the Bible. Is e... Read more
19 Mar 2019
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1hr 33mins
Ranked #15
Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals
Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals
David and Tamler have their first real fight in a while over an article defending "social mixing"--distributing babies r... Read more
25 May 2016
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #16
Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)
Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)
David and Tamler do their best to talk frankly about intelligence and IQ research. (It's our Patreon listener-selected t... Read more
29 Aug 2017
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1hr 40mins
Ranked #17
Episode 119: A Brief History of Values
Episode 119: A Brief History of Values
What happens when we discover why we believe the things we believe? What if we discover that our values are the product ... Read more
12 Jul 2017
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #18
Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
We try (with varying success) to wrap our heads around Thomas Nagel’s classic article “What is it Like to be a Bat?" Doe... Read more
29 Oct 2019
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1hr 42mins
Ranked #19
Episode 94: Buttery Friendships
Episode 94: Buttery Friendships
Dave and Tamler don’t agree about much, but one thing they do share is an affinity for character-based approaches to eth... Read more
19 Jul 2016
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1hr 36mins
Ranked #20
Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines
Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines
Inspired by a recent ProPublica report on racial bias in an algorithm used to predict future criminal behavior, David an... Read more
7 Jun 2016
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1hr 24mins
