David and Tamler tackle the topic chosen by our beloved Patreon supporters in the first VBW madness tournament – Schopenhauer. We discuss his essays "On the Sufferings of the World" and "The Vanity of Existence," their strikingly modern perspectives on human life and behavior and the influences Schopenhauer took from Eastern thought. Plus, David has Tamler do a blind ranking of movie directors. <a href= "https://plato.stanford.edu/ENTRIES/schopenhauer/">Arthur Schopenhauer</a> [plato.stanford.edu] <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/schopenh/">Arther Schopenhauer</a> [iep.utm.edu] <a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10732/10732-h/10732-h.htm">The Essays of Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism</a> [full-text from gutenberg.org]

Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.