The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom) is the 24th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on June 10, 2013.

Show Notes

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) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil ,  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) .  

• The Baby in the Well: The Case Against Empathy
  
• Descartes' Baby
  
• Is empathy necessary for morality
  
• Pizarro, Bloom, and Detweiler-Bedell on the empathy, disgust, and the moral circle
  
• Just babies: The origins of good and evil
  
• Louis CK: My Life is Really Evil.  
  
• Support Very Bad Wizards