Episode 34: Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson) - a podcast by Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
from 2013-10-28T08:00
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Special guest Will Wilkinson
joins the podcast to talk about whether fiction makes us better people, and to discuss his recent Daily Beast article that trashed Dave's profession and livelihood. Also, Dave and Tamler try to make sense of Ancient Greek justice in a myth about incest, adultery, daughter-killing, husband-killing, matricide, cannibalism, and trash talking to disembodied heads.
Links
- Agamemnon [wikipedia.org]
- Will Wilkinson[wikipedia.org]
- The Will Wilkinsonarticle that hurt David's feelings[thedailybeast.com]
- Hurt Feelingsby Flight of the Concords [youtube.com]
- Does great literature make us better? by Gregory Currie [nytimes.com]
- Reading literature makes us smarter and nicerby Annie Murphy Paul [time.com]
- Want to learn how to think? Read fictionby Tom Jacobs [psmag.com]
- In Pursuit of Happiness Research [pdf] by Will Wilkinson
Special Guest: Will Wilkinson.
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