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Paul Bloom (University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy, Psych) and David Pizarro (Cornell University)
On The Mind Report, Paul talks to David about his recent TED talk about the politics of disgust. Paul asks David for a theory of why we connect repugnance and wrongness, and they argue about whether we pass moral judgment on a baby with a dirty diaper. Both Paul and David agree that disgust is not a good guide to morality. They next consider the dismissal of reason as a trend in academic psychology. Paul and David close by explaining how the lessons of social psychology can help with everyday life.
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Paul Bloom
David Pizarro’s TED talk on disgust
Paul Rozin and Jon Haight’s disgust scale (need to register first)
Richard Dawkins’s documentary, “Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life”
Reason Magazine’s interview with Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum’s book, “From Disgust to Humanity”
“The Wisdom of Repugnance” by Leon Kass
Joshua Greene’s diavlog with Joshua Knobe
Lee Jussim’s book, “Social Perception and Social Reality”
The Mind Report | Nov 24, 2012 | Paul Bloom & David Pizarro
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