Very Bad Wizards
a philosopher and a psychologist ponder human morality
We found 2 episodes of Very Bad Wizards with the tag “david lewis”.
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Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)
December 7th, 2021 | 1 hr 56 mins
david lewis, primer, thanksgiving, time traveling
First, it’s the return of the annual drunken Thanksgiving segment! Tamler and based wicked stepmom Christina Hoff Sommers fight about JFK, systematic racism, corporations, and how to pronounce valium. (We find more common ground than usual though on Covid and Havana Syndrome.) Then podcast auteur Barry Lam joins David and Tamler to talk about David Lewis on time travel, the new season of Barry’s excellent podcast Hi-Phi Nation, and then a deep dive on maybe the best time travel movie of all time - Shane Carruth's mind-melting cult classic "Primer."
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Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy
September 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 49 mins
david lewis, modal realism, neil sinhababu, pedagogy, possible girls, possible worlds, teaching
She’s beautiful, smart, funny, and head over heels in love with you. There’s only one problem – she’s from a possible world, not the actual one. What we thought would be a funny opening segment idea turns into a semi-serious discussion of Neil Sinhababu’s 2008 article “Possible Girls.” Plus David and Tamler share some thoughts on teaching in normal times and today.