David and Tamler return to the strange world of Nikolai Gogol and discuss his absurdist masterpiece "The Overcoat," a story that both calls for and steadfastly resists interpretation. But first we discuss a forthcoming Phil Studies article "Philosophy as Fact-Based Discipline: 200 Philosophical Facts." Wait until you hear what they are. Frances, B. (2026). <a href= "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-025-02457-y">Philosophy as fact-based discipline: 200 philosophical facts.</a> Philosophical Studies, 183(2), 551-581. [springer.com] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat">The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol</a> [wikipedia.org]

Episode 331: Who's Your Law Daddy? (Plato's "Crito")

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.