Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom) - a podcast by Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
from 2013-06-10T10:00
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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) .
Links
- The Baby in the Well: The Case Against Empathyby Paul Bloom [newyorker.com]
- Descartes' Baby by Paul Bloom [amazon.com]
- Jesse Prinz"Is empathy necessary for morality"[subcortex.com]
- Pizarro, Bloom, and Detweiler-Bedell on the empathy, disgust, and the moral circle[peezer.net]
- Pre-order Just babies: The origins of good and evilby Paul Bloom [amazon.com]
- Louis CK: My Life is Really Evil.
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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