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Episode 71: The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot"

Episode 71: The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot"

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 71: The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot"

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
67 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

David and Tamler go deep into the best TV show of the summer, "Mr. Robot. They talk about the moral ambiguity of its central character, the distorted vision of reality it portrays, and play a round of "Real or Not Real" with all the main characters. Plus, what the swooning critics ignore about Pixar's "Inside Out"--its irresponsible failure to reference the relevant literature in cognitive science and philosophy of mind.     LinksTwo philosophers explain what Inside Out gets wrong about the mind [vox.com]The James/Lange theory of emotion [wikipedia.org]Mr. Robot [IMDB]Unreliable Narrator [wikipedia.org]Shoot the Dog Trope [tvtropes.org]  
Released:
Jul 14, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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.