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| Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame | 14 Jun 2024 | 01:47:44 | |
In the final discussion of the series, we dive into Franklin's work on the value of angry blame: can anger best--really, only--express certain features of am adequate response to wrongdoing?
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 72 - Amia Srinivasan: The Aptness of Anger | 07 Jun 2024 | 01:29:55 | |
We dive into Srinivasan's amazing (but at the end of the day, I think not fully right) paper, "The Aptness of Anger."
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Twitter: @JordanCMyers
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 63 - Moral Obligations and Social Commands (Celebrating Susan Wolf) | 03 Aug 2023 | 01:30:40 | |
In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss Wolf's essay "Moral Obligations and Social Commands," which asks where the true authority of moral enforcement originates from.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://academic.oup.com/book/3673/chapter-abstract/145029050?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
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Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 62 - Moral Saints (Celebrating Susan Wolf) | 27 Jul 2023 | 01:21:18 | |
A new (mini) series! This begins a 6 part series on the moral philosophy of Susan Wolf in conjunction with a graduate seminar I took at Rice in the Fall of 2022. This episode is a discussion of her famous essay "Moral Saints."
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/26834/files/3753058/download?verifier=m6bBkOI2cZxGBVt4DVnqJUaGQK9RjbeqUHx1wG50&wrap=1
Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David Pizzaro -- @peez on twitter (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beats-without-7-85632085?utmmedium=postnotificationemail&utmcampaign=patronengagement&utmsource=postlink&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTo1YWQ5NGE0OS00MGZkLTRhNGYtOGY0YS1kOTA3YWMwNDdhNTEiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NTYzMjA4NSwicGF0cm9uX2lkIjoxMDM2MDAwNn0.zgQGZdKQYiw3CV6QGXGhmDztFYYmY04o8IYrdPoXd8)
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 61 - Glen Pettigrove: Meekness and Moral Anger | 07 Apr 2023 | 01:04:10 | |
I speak with Glen Pettigrove about his paper "Meekness and Moral Anger." We discuss his attempt to breathe new life into meekness as a virtue, his diagnosis of anger's downsides, and the ways in which meekness can avoid these pitfalls.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/663230?journalCode=et
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/glenpettigrove/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Pettigrove
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Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Glen Pettigrove.
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| Ep. 60 - Cameron Boult: Epistemic Blame & Relationship Modification | 21 Nov 2022 | 00:56:00 | |
I speak with Cameron Boult about his series of papers and forthcoming book on epistemic blame: what it means, when it's appropriate, and how we modify our epistemic relationships with others.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://cameronboult.weebly.com/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12726
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00382-0
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phc3.12762?af=R#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20emotion%2Dbased,culpably)%20violated%20some%20epistemic%20norm.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Cameron Boult.
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| Ep. 59 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 2) | 21 Sep 2022 | 01:41:51 | |
Part 2 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 58 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 1) | 19 Sep 2022 | 01:18:27 | |
Part 1 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 57 - Existentialism: The Stranger, by Camus | 17 Sep 2022 | 01:50:06 | |
The Stranger by Albert Camus.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 56 - "Existentialism is a Humanism," by Sartre | 15 Sep 2022 | 01:35:27 | |
"Existentialism is a Humanism" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 55 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 2) | 13 Sep 2022 | 02:02:50 | |
Part 2 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 54 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 1) | 10 Sep 2022 | 01:08:55 | |
Part 1 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 71 - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness (Part 2) | 14 Mar 2024 | 01:27:06 | |
Part two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness.
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Twitter: @JordanCMyers
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Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 53 - Existentialism: Notes from Underground, by Dostoyevsky (PART 2) | 08 Sep 2022 | 01:56:31 | |
Part 2 of Notes from Underground. The Underground Man's past.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 52 - Existentialism: Notes from Underground, by Dostoyevsky (PART 1) | 05 Sep 2022 | 01:46:56 | |
Part 1 of Notes from Underground. The Paradoxicalist's philosophy.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 51 - Manuel Vargas: Free Will Revisionism | 19 Aug 2022 | 00:08:16 | |
In this episode, I discuss a view about Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Revisionism, with Manuel Vargas. We talk about what it means to be a revisionist about theories in general, how he thinks our view of free will should be reshaped, and how the way we talk about free will and moral responsibility shapes the way we think about the debate.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
http://vargasphilosophy.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Four-Views-Free-Martin-Fischer/dp/1405134860#:~:text=free%20will%20debate.-,The%20book%20takes%20up%20the%20opposing%20viewpoints%20of%20libertarianism%2C%20defended,revisionism%2C%20defended%20by%20Manuel%20Vargas.
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Better-Beings-Theory-Responsibility/dp/019969754X
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Manuel Vargas.
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| Ep. 50 - Declaration of the Rights of Man (PPE series prt7) | 18 Aug 2022 | 01:48:55 | |
In part 7 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, a foundational Enlightenment document that inspired some of the United States' own formational ideas.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 49 - "Two Concepts of Liberty" by Isiah Berlin (PPE series prt6) | 16 Aug 2022 | 01:08:30 | |
In part 6 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss Berlin's famous concepts of positive and negative liberty.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://cactus.utahtech.edu/green/BReadings/IBerlin%20Two%20Concpets%20of%20Liberty.pdf
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 48 - The Communist Manifesto (PPE series prt5) | 14 Aug 2022 | 02:01:31 | |
In part 5 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I keep the Marx train going with a discussion of the Communist Manifesto, a political call to arms for the global workers of the 19th century. We talk about its historical and present day relevance.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 47 - Estranged Labor by Karl Marx (PPE series prt4) | 12 Aug 2022 | 02:00:09 | |
In part 4 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the pamphlet/writings of Karl Marx. We talk about the concept of estrangement or alienation with respect to present day and historical work environments and detail our own experiences with the concept.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/368/368marxestrangedtable.pdf
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Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 46 - Reactive Attitudes and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt3) | 08 Aug 2022 | 01:39:27 | |
In part 3 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the paper "Co-Reactive Attitudes and the Making of Moral Community" by Victoria McGeer, wherein she links an adoption of P.F. Strawson's thesis about the reactive attitudes directly to the practice of restorative justice.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.princeton.edu/~vmcgeer/papers/McGeer2010CoreactiveMS.pdf
https://platoscave.fireside.fm/33
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Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/
Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 45 - "What is the Point of Equality?" by Elizabeth Anderson (PPE series prt2) | 04 Aug 2022 | 02:42:55 | |
In part 2 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the paper "What is the Point of Equality?" by Elizabeth Anderson, which investigated the role of luck in creating egalitarian outcomes. Anderson focuses on a capabilities approach to political equality which differs from some common intuitions held by luck egalitarians.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu/joomlatools-files/docman-files/4ElizabethAnderson.pdf
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 44 - Conflict as Property and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt1) | 30 Jul 2022 | 01:32:51 | |
In part 1 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, we discuss the formative paper "Conflict as Property" by Nils Christie along with some of its more modern applications in restorative justice.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://criminologiacabana.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/nils-christie-conflicts-as-property.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLPZy2wW-x8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPA-p6UUDl4
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1) | 07 Mar 2024 | 01:48:43 | |
In the second episode of our series on anger, we dive into the first chapters of Martha Nussbaum's recent book, Anger and Forgiveness. The first two chapters focus on the myth of payback's value.
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 43 - Garrett Pendergraft: "Free Will and Human Agency" (50 Thought Experiments) | 28 Jun 2022 | 01:12:55 | |
In this episode, I speak with Garrett Pendergraft about his forthcoming book: FREE WILL AND HUMAN AGENCY: 50 PUZZLES, PARADOXES, AND THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS, which will be out in July 2022! We discuss three chapters on the Garden of Forking Paths, Uncertainty and Deliberation, and Divine Foreknowledge.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/garrett-pendergraft/#:~:text=Most%20of%20his%20research%20focuses,foreknowledge%2C%20and%20situationism%20in%20psychology.
https://www.routledge.com/Free-Will-and-Human-Agency-50-Puzzles-Paradoxes-and-Thought-Experiments/Pendergraft/p/book/9780367641948
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Garrett Pendergraft .
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| Ep. 42 - FW/MR: "For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything" by Greene & Cohen | 16 Jun 2022 | 01:23:52 | |
In this reading group episode, we wrap up the free will and moral responsibility series with a discussion of Green and Cohen's "For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything." We talk about the legal and cultural implications of the series through the lens of Green ad Cohen's work.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693457/
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions), Brian (Reading Group Discussions), and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 41 - FW/MR: "Asymmetrical Freedom" by Susan Wolf | 15 Jun 2022 | 01:42:11 | |
In this reading group episode, Giffin, Adam, Brian, and I talk about the crazy (in the best way) paper by Susan Wolf, "Asymmetrical Freedom." Can we be responsible for bad actions? Only good ones? What does the role of determinism do to our judgements?
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2025667
https://diversifyingsyllabi.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/1/8/38180217/susanwolf-assymetricalfreedom.pdf
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions), Brian (Reading Group Discussions), and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 40 - FW/MR: "Reply: The Free Will Revolution" by John Martin Fischer | 14 Jun 2022 | 01:46:39 | |
In this reading group episode, Adam, Giffin, Brian, and I follow up on JMF's reasons-responsive view of responsibility by looking to an earlier paper of his: "Reply: The Free Will Revolution."
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://philpapers.org/rec/FISRTF
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions), Brian (Reading Group Discussions), and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 39 - FW/MR: "Semicompatibilism and its Rivals" by John Martin Fischer | 13 Jun 2022 | 01:54:53 | |
In this reading group episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss reasons-responsive compatibilism by looking into J.M.F.'s work, excellently laid out in this article. We also discuss JMF's critique of Frankfurt's second order desire account.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41486954
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 38 - FW/MR: "The Importance of Free Will" by Susan Wolf | 12 Jun 2022 | 02:37:38 | |
In this reading group episode, Adam, Brian, Giffin, and I discuss "The Importance of Free Will" by Susan Wolf, a discussion spawned by our disagreements in the previous episode about the plausibility of Sommers 2007.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2253093
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions), Brian (Reading Group Discussions), and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 37 - FW/MR: "The Objective Attitude" by Tamler Sommers | 11 Jun 2022 | 02:32:04 | |
In this reading group episode, we discuss "The Objective Attitude" by Tamler Sommers. Giffin thinks that he could happily exist in this state - Adam and I strongly disagree. Brian join us for the rest of the series!
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.487.x
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions), Brian (Reading Group Discussions), and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
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| Ep. 36 - FW/MR: "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" by Harry Frankfurt | 10 Jun 2022 | 01:53:09 | |
In this reading group episode, we discuss Harry Frankfurt's landmark 1969 paper, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility"
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2023833
Twitter: @JordanCMyers
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| Ep. 35 - FW/MR: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" by Harry Frankfurt | 09 Jun 2022 | 01:49:09 | |
In this reading group episode, we discuss Frankfurt's famous paper, Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2024717
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| Ep. 34 - FW/MR: "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil" by Gary Watson | 08 Jun 2022 | 02:32:48 | |
In this reading group episode, we discuss Gary Watson's paper on Intelligible Moral Demand being a way to view the debate on moral responsibility. That paper is his Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.101515!/file/watson-responsibility-limits-of-evil.pdf
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| Ep. 69 - Anger: Seneca & Stoicism | 23 Feb 2024 | 01:51:07 | |
Episode 1 of a new series on the philosophy of emotion--specifically, anger. We discuss some introductory questions and Seneca's 'On Anger.'
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| Ep. 33 - FW/MR: "Freedom and Resentment" by P.F. Strawson | 07 Jun 2022 | 01:57:01 | |
In this reading group episode, we go deep into the weeds of PF Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment."
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
PDF:http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/zucchi/NuoviFile/FreedomandResentment.pdf
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| Ep. 32 - FW/MR: The Four Case Argument and Basic Argument by Galen Strawson and Derk Pereboom | 06 Jun 2022 | 01:18:23 | |
In this reading group discussion episode, we discuss Galen Strawson's "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility" and Derk Pereboom's Four Case Argument against compatibilism.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/551587e0e4b0ce927f09707f/t/57b5d14de58c624a6d3a5e99/1471533403405/Strawson%2C+The+Impossibility+of+Moral+Responsibility.pdf
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2015/01/perebooms-four-case-argument-against.html
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| Ep. 31 - FW/MR: SEP on Free Will and Determinism | 04 Jun 2022 | 00:53:30 | |
In this reading group discussion episode, we discuss a follow up to our part 1 episode using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on free will and determinism.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/
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| Ep. 30 - FW/MR: "Free Will" by Sam Harris | 02 Jun 2022 | 01:18:20 | |
In this reading group discussion episode, we start a series on Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility with Sam Harris's book.
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| Ep. 29 - Max Kiener: Consenting to Objectification | 15 Feb 2022 | 00:57:25 | |
I spoke with Max Kiener about his work in moral responsibility, consent, and Strawson's reactive and objective attitudes. We discussed applied cases of the objective stance, such as manipulating someone into getting the Covid vaccine, undergoing a medical operation, or for someone's best interests.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://maximilian-kiener.weebly.com/
https://theconversation.com/covid-is-it-ok-to-manipulate-people-into-getting-vaccinated-158489
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| Ep. 28 - Eddy Nahmias: Neuroscience as a (Non) Threat to Free Will | 10 Feb 2022 | 00:43:06 | |
I spoke with the philosopher Eddy Nahmias about his work in Free Will and Moral Responsibility. What type of freedom do we have, or want to have? And does the increasing understanding of the brain threaten our sense of acting freely? Find out all this and more in my talk with Eddy. We use two paper of his as background for the conversation: "Your Brain as the Source of Free Will Worth Wanting" and "Why ‘Willusionism’ Leads to ‘Bad Results.’"
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://eddynahmias.com/
https://philpapers.org/rec/NAHYBA
https://www.eddynahmias.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Neuroethics-Response-to-Baumeister.pdf
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| Ep. 27 - Seth Shabo: Free Will Mysterianism | 20 Jan 2022 | 01:05:46 | |
In this episode, I speak with Seth Shabo about Mysterianism, a view originated by Peter van Inwagen. We also touch related topics: determinism's relevance to responsibility, reactive attitudes, and the Luck Objection to free will.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://philpeople.org/profiles/seth-shabo
https://philpapers.org/rec/SHATTL-5
https://thefreewillshow.com/episode-19/
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| Ep. 26 - Adam Kadlac: Objectification in Sports | 29 Dec 2021 | 01:09:04 | |
In this episode, I speak with Adam Kadlac about a chapter in his newly published book, The Ethics of Sports Fandom. We discuss the pitfalls of objectification within various areas of athletics and from different perspectives. You can purchase the full book now!
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-of-Sports-Fandom/Kadlac/p/book/9781032122311
https://www.adamkadlac.com/
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| Ep. 25 - Matthew Flummer: The Free Will Show and Moral Responsibility | 13 Dec 2021 | 00:50:43 | |
In this episode, I speak with Matthew Flummer about various episodes and topics from his podcast, The Free Will Show. We discuss Frankfurt cases, God's Foreknowledge as a threat to freedom, and the type of control needed for responsibility.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://matthewflummer.weebly.com/
https://thefreewillshow.com/about/
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| Ep. 24 - Paul Russell: Free Will, Art, and Morality (& Compatibilism) | 18 Nov 2021 | 01:13:39 | |
In this episode, I speak with Paul Russell about his 2008 paper, "Free Will, Art, and Morality," along with more general topics within the responsibility debate, which are included in Paul's chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming). We discuss his case for compatibilism between determinism and moral responsibility.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://sites.google.com/site/paulrussellubc/home
Paper PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/170S_5xE4tXiPwUiGum7S9gUry26N8uHY/view?usp=sharing
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| Ep. 68 - Sukaina Hirji: Outrage and the Bound of Empathy | 12 Sep 2023 | 00:54:38 | |
I speak with Sukaina Hirji about her (very) recent paper discussing a type of anger referred to as outrage: what it is, how it differs from other emotions, & how it functions in our emotional lives.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.sukaina-hirji.com/
https://philpapers.org/archive/HIROAT.pdf
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| Ep. 23 - Susan Wolf: On Moral Responsibility | 22 Oct 2021 | 01:00:23 | |
In this episode, I speak with Susan Wolf about her first two papers, "Asymmetrical Freedom" and "The Importance of Having Free Will." These papers have been influential to me and I was lucky enough to discuss them with Dr. Wolf. We discuss her views on moral responsibility, reactive attitudes, and her upcoming projects.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://philosophy.unc.edu/people/susan-wolf/
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| Ep. 22 - John Martin Fischer: Moral Responsibility Semicompatibilism | 16 Sep 2021 | 01:08:41 | |
In this episode, I speak with John Martin Fischer about his semicompatibilism about moral responsibility. We use his 2012 paper, "Semicompatibilism and its Rivals" as a framework for the discussion.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://alaw003.wixsite.com/johnmartinfischer
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| Ep. 21 - Gregg Caruso: Just Deserts & Rejecting Retributivism | 04 Jun 2021 | 01:25:35 | |
In this episode, I speak with Gregg Caruso about this recent book, Just Deserts, co-authored with Dan Dennett. We discuss his claims about rejecting deep moral responsibility while still preserving many distinctions that compatibilists like Dan find important. We also dive into the divide between he (and myself) and Dennett.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
http://www.greggcaruso.com/
https://debatingfreewill.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Rejecting-Retributivism-Punishment-Criminal-Cognitive/dp/1108484700/ref=sr114?dchild=1&keywords=Gregg+Caruso&qid=1601484552&s=books&sr=1-14
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| Ep. 20 - Per-Erik Milam: Letting Go & Forgiveness | 08 May 2021 | 01:06:10 | |
In this episode, I speak with Per Milam about his recent work on letting go as an alternative to forgiveness. These topics naturally touch on the practices of blame and responsibility and Strawson's reactive attitudes.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
http://www.pererikmilam.com/
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