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Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
110 minutes
Released:
Nov 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

David and Tamler keep their Nagel streak alive, discussing the essay "The Fragmention of Value" from his collection "Mortal Questions." How should we address our fragmented moral landscape, with multiple sources of value that can't be reduced or systematically ordered? Does this make all of our moral decisions arbitrary? Plus, we talk about Louis CK and in a Thanksgiving tradition special guest Christina Hoff Sommers rejoins the podcast in a moderately drunken debate with Tamler about a possible sex panic. Special Guest: Christina Hoff Sommers.
Released:
Nov 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.