Moral Persuasion
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Moral Persuasion is the 28th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on August 05, 2013. The main segment is a discussion on . The preroll contains the standard disclaimer and theme_music.
Opening Quote
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Show Notes
Dave and Tamler try their best to do a show without guests--we talk about moral persuasion, motivated reasoning, and whether it's legitimate to use emotionally charged rhetoric in a philosophical argument. Plus, we describe how students proceed through the "Stages-of-Singer," and Tamler finally defends himself against Dave's slanderous accusation of hypocrisy about animal welfare.
- A defense of abortion.
- Why abortion is immoral.
- Motivated skepticism: Use of differential decision criteria for preferred and nonpreferred conclusions.
- Motivated Moral Reasoning.
- Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the Wason Selection Task.
- Sam's House
- The identifiable victim effect
- mediocre TEDx talk
- 10 Classic South Park Impressions
- Support Very Bad Wizards