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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
77 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

David and Tamler break down the latest small-stakes academic controversy--yes the one about conceptual penises. Does the recent "Sokal-like" hoax expose the ideological extremism of gender studies? Or does it show that certain portions of the "skeptic" community are susceptible to the same biases as their opponents? In the main segment they discuss the problems with measuring pain, pleasure, and happiness. When your doctor asks you to rate your pain between 1 and 10 and you say a 7, does your '7' reflect the same subjective experience as another person's '7'? (That depends--have you experienced childbirth?) How can we get more accurate readings of pain and pleasure across different people with different experiences? Most importantly, which number gets you the Vicodin?
Released:
May 31, 2017
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.