Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
Summary: <p>Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) <i>Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil<em> </em>, </i>racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) . </p><h2>Links</h2><ul> <li> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/05/20/130520crat_atlarge_bloom">The Baby in the Well: The Case Against Empathy</a> by Paul Bloom [newyorker.com] </li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465007864/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0465007864&linkCode=as2&tag=verbadwiz-20">Descartes' Baby</a> by Paul Bloom [amazon.com]</li> <li>Jesse Prinz <a href="http://subcortex.com/IsEmpathyNecessaryForMoralityPrinz.pdf">"Is empathy necessary for morality"</a> [subcortex.com] </li> <li> <a href="http://www.peezer.net/s/pizarro-detweiler-bedell-bloom-2006-chapter.pdf">Pizarro, Bloom, and Detweiler-Bedell on the empathy, disgust, and the moral circle</a> [peezer.net] </li> <li>Pre-order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307886840/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307886840&linkCode=as2&tag=verbadwiz-20">Just babies: The origins of good and evil</a> by Paul Bloom [amazon.com]</li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4FnfNKwUo" target="_blank">Louis CK: My Life is Really Evil. </a></li> </ul><p> </p><p>Special Guest: Paul Bloom.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/verybadwizards">Support Very Bad Wizards</a></p>
