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Dave and Tamler try their best to do a show without guests--we talk about moral persuasion, motivated reasoning, and whether it\'s legitimate to use emotionally charged rhetoric in a philosophical argument. Plus, we describe how students proceed through the "Stages-of-Singer," and Tamler finally defends himself against Dave\'s slanderous accusation of hypocrisy about animal welfare.

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Links

Thomson, J. J. (1971). A defense of abortion.\\xa0\\xa0Philosophy & Public Affairs,1, 47-66.

Marquis, D. (1989). Why abortion is immoral.\\xa0\\xa0The Journal of Philosophy,\\xa086(4), 183-202.

Ditto, P. H., & Lopez, D. F. (1992). Motivated skepticism: Use of differential decision criteria for preferred and nonpreferred conclusions.\\xa0Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,\\xa063\\xa0(4), 568.

Ditto, P.H., Pizarro, D.A., & Tannenbaum, D. (2009).\\xa0Motivated Moral Reasoning.\\xa0In B. H. Ross (Series Ed.) & D. M. Bartels, C. W. Bauman, L. J. Skitka, & D. L. Medin (Eds.),\\xa0Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 50: Moral Judgment and Decision Making.\\xa0San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Dawson, E., Gilovich, T., & Regan, D. T. (2002). Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the Wason Selection Task.\\xa0Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,\\xa028, 1379-1387.

Sam\'s House, an orphanage in Nepal [sams-house.org]\\xa0

The identifiable victim effect\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

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Tamler\'s mediocre TEDx talk on Moral Persuasion [youtube.com]

10 Classic South Park Impressions (including Sally Struthers) [youtube.com]

*musical breaks in this episode stolen from DJ Premier and Jay Electronica. Please don\'t sue.\\xa0

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