Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-08-07
Tyler Cowen & Paul Bloom: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
Paul Bloom is a renowned psychologist and writer specializing in moral psychology, particularly how moral thoughts and actions develop in children.
Paul Bloom recommended The Principles of Psychology by William James, and discussed The Hebrew Bible by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. Tyler Cowen discussed Against Empathy by Paul Bloom.
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The Hebrew Bible
Discussed“So, one idea and this this is Robert Wright's claim. I think other people have argued this that we start off polytheistic polytheism is sort of the default. Society start off polytheistic. Even in the Hebrew Bible, it might begin rather polytheistic when when God talks about not worshipping other gods uh instead of him, he's literally talking about other”
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Against Empathy
Discussed“Your view that there's too much empathy, you wrote a book called Against Empathy. What emotion in you does that come from?”
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Discussed“Amy Amy Chua who who is a friend of mine who brought the the idea in her Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.”
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The Principles of Psychology
Recommended“I I I have gone through my my my adult life my my whole life without ever reading Principles of Psychology by William James. And then a couple of friends of mine invited me on their podcast to talk about his chapter on habit. And I read it and it blew me away. It's an incredible book.”
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Plugged The Human Mind
“He has numerous excellent books. I've enjoyed all of them. The most recent is called Psych, the story of the human mind, but again, you can read all of them.”