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Episode 4: Revenge, Pt. 1
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52 minutes
Released:
Sep 20, 2012
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Dave allows Tamler to rant about Sam Harris’s strawman attacks
on moral relativism before launching into discussion about revenge, justice, True Grit, and Michael Dukakis. Though
they differ on many issues, Tamler and Dave agree that it’s hard to satirize a
guy with shiny boots. LinksSam
Harris in the Huffington Post.“Brute force is better with
Nazis.” The answer that launched
a series of Bush presidencies.“This ain’t no coon
hunt.”·Justice
and Honor, Tamler’s Psychology Today blog
post."Partial Desert" blog post at Flickers of Freedom.
on moral relativism before launching into discussion about revenge, justice, True Grit, and Michael Dukakis. Though
they differ on many issues, Tamler and Dave agree that it’s hard to satirize a
guy with shiny boots. LinksSam
Harris in the Huffington Post.“Brute force is better with
Nazis.” The answer that launched
a series of Bush presidencies.“This ain’t no coon
hunt.”·Justice
and Honor, Tamler’s Psychology Today blog
post."Partial Desert" blog post at Flickers of Freedom.
Released:
Sep 20, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 1: Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1): Dave and Tamler talk about the new wave of skepticism about free will and moral responsibility in the popular press from people like Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne, and argue that neuroscientific data adds little of substance to the case other than telling us what we already know: human beings are natural biological entities. Dave comes out as a Star Trek nerd and asks whether we're all, in the end, like Data the android. They also wonder whether a belief in free will is all that's keeping us from having sex with our dogs. Finally, Dave grills Tamler about his new book on the differences in attitudes about free will and moral responsibility across cultures. by Very Bad Wizards