A Very Bad Wizard by Tamler Sommers
Do we have free will? What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon? Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? These are just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in far-spanning interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology. Philip Zimbardo talks about his famous Stanford Prison Experiment and how it relates to abuses of Abu Ghraib. Harvard neuroscientist Josh Greene reports on the ways our brains react to ethical dilemmas. Jonathan Haidt explains why we object to incest and how that relates to disagreements between conservatives and liberals. Renowned Primatologist Frans de Waal juxtaposes human behavior with that of the bonobo (a species he terms the hippie ape.) And much more. A Very Bad Wizard is essential reading for anyone curious about the origins and inner workings of our moral lives.Tamler Sommers is a philosophy assistant professor at the University of Houston. A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain, a collection of interviews with philosophers and scientists, is his first book. He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Believer, and has written numerous pieces in scholarly journals.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781934781388 |
| ISBN 10 | 193478138X |
| Title | A Very Bad Wizard |
| Author | Tamler Sommers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McSweeney's Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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