Tamler Sommers
Special guest
Tamler Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, interested in issues relating to honor, free will, moral responsibility, punishment, and revenge.
He's the author of several books:
- Relative Justice (2012) on the diversity of norms and attitudes about responsibility across cultures,
- A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain (2009, 2nd edition 2016), a collection of interviews with philosophers and scientists on issues in moral psychology, and
- Why Honor Matters (2018).
He also co-hosts the Very Bad Wizards podcast (along with the psychologist David Pizarro), which features discussions about ethics, free will, revenge, neuroscience, psychopaths, relativism, pop culture, and lots more.
Tamler Sommers has been a guest on 1 episode.
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#75 - The Problem of Induction, Relitigated (w/ Tamler Sommers)
October 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 41 mins
belief, certainty, deduction, induction, justification, logic, popper
When Very Bad Wizards meets Very Culty Popperians. Famed philosopher, podcaster, and Kant-hater Tamler Sommers joins the boys for a spirited disagreement over Popper, and whether he solved the Problem of Induction.