Very Bad Wizards Creators & Guests

Tamler Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He is an author of several books. He is co-hosts, along with psychologist David Pizarro, of the podcast Very Bad Wizards.

David Pizarro is an Associate Professor of Department of Psychology at Cornell University. He has been doing a biweekly podcast with the philosopher Tamler Sommers on the science and philosophy of h

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.

Katie Herzog is a freelance journalist and co-host of the Blocked and Reported Podcast.

Dr. Laurie Santos is a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.

Eric Schwitzgebel is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He uses empirical psychology to study the philosophy of mind and the nature of belief.Schwi

Jesse Singal is a Brooklyn-based journalist, currently writing a book about social science, social justice, and the replication crisis for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Contributing writer at New York

William MacAskill is a philosopher, ethicist, and one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. He is also a researcher at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford.

Peter Albert David Singer is a moral philosopher, he is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics

Paul Bloom is a psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.