I read Tamler Sommer’s new book, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality behind the Curtain, recently and really liked it. So I wrote a short review of it for Metapsychology. It’s posted here, open access and all:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5317&cn=135
I highly recommend the book, though I do complain a bit about some of its pessimistic aspects.
UPDATE: The review got [...]
Archive > December 2009
Review of A Very Bad Wizard
Zimbardo on Colbert
Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist who ran the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, was on the Colbert Report last year. Best part:
Zimbardo: Obviously you learned well in Sunday school.
Colbert: I teach Sunday school, motherf#@ker!
“Just in Case”
I’ve posted something about the philosophical use of the phrase “just in case” over at the SoCal Phil blog.
