Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to discuss their five favorite comic films with philosophical/psychological themes. Groundhog Day was off-limits for our top five (we would’ve all chosen it) so we start by explaining why it’s the quintessential movie for this topic.

[all movie links are to imdb.com]

• Paul’s Top 5
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • The Man with Two Brains/All of Me
  • Stranger than Fiction
  • Being There
• Tamler’s Top 5
  • Defending Your Life/Lost in America
  • Modern Times
  • Seven Psychopaths/In Bruges
  • Barton Fink/Sullivan’s Travels
  • Purple Rose of Cairo
• David’s Top 5
  • Office Space
  • Dr. Strangelove
    • Pinker, S. (1999). “The Doomsday Machine” in How the mind works. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 882(1), 119-127.
  • Brazil
  • Trading Places
    • Mr. Skin
  • The Princess Bride

Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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