Adam (Reading Group Discussions)
Special guest
My name is Adam and I'm an old friend of Jordan's. We've been interested in philosophical topics for as long as we can remember, and in a lot of ways it was the basis of our friendship. I studied chemistry and biology at Cornell, and I'm currently applying to law programs. I'm especially interested in moral responsibility and its overlap with law.
Adam (Reading Group Discussions) has been a guest on 38 episodes.
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Ep. 74 - Mary the Color Scientist (Consciousness pt. 1)
April 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 31 mins
cave, color, consciousness, dualism, epiphenomenalism, experience, frank, grad school, graduate, group, jackson, jordan, mary, mind, myers, phd, philosophy, physicalism, plato, plato's cave, reading, scientist, university of houston, university of southern california, usc
In the first episode of this new series on the philosophy of mind, we dive into Frank Jackson's famous paper, "What Mary Didn't Know." The paper and conversation raises questions about whether the mind is merely physical and how intuitions play a role in this philosophical debate.
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Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame
June 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 47 mins
amia, anger, angry, aptness, blame, cave, disappointment, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, franklin, furies, grad school, graduate, grief, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, sher, srinivasan, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
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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Ep. 72 - Amia Srinivasan: The Aptness of Anger
June 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
amia, anger, angry, aptness, cave, disappointment, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, furies, grad school, graduate, grief, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, srinivasan, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
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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Ep. 71 - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness (Part 2)
March 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins
anger, angry, cave, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, furies, grad school, graduate, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
Part two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness.
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Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1)
March 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 48 mins
anger, angry, cave, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, furies, grad school, graduate, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
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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Ep. 69 - Anger: Seneca & Stoicism
February 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 51 mins
anger, angry, cave, emotion, feeling, grad school, graduate, group, hate, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, seneca, stoic, stoicism, university of houston
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. 67 - Two Levels of Pluralism (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 31st, 2023 | 1 hr 27 mins
cave, duty, ethics, good, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, levels, life, love, meaning, moral, morality, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, pluralism, reading, reis-dennis, relativism, rice, right, saints, sam, series, susan, two, university of houston, value, vida, wolf, wrong, yao
In the final episode of the series, we discuss Wolf's article "Two Levels of Pluralism" which investigates whether pluralism reduces into relativism. Spoiler--it doesn't!
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Ep. 66 - Moral Luck (Celebrating Susan Wolf [& Bernard Williams])
August 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 16 mins
agent, bernard, cave, chance, choice, duty, ethics, good, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, life, likelihood, love, luck, meaning, moral, morality, myers, nagel, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reading, regret, reis-dennis, rice, right, saints, sam, series, susan, university of houston, value, vida, williams, wolf, wrong, yao
In this episode, we discuss the seminal paper "Moral Luck" by Bernard Williams and a new replies to the problem of moral luck.
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Ep. 65 - The Role of Rules (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 45 mins
act, cave, consequentialism, duty, ethics, good, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, life, love, meaning, moral, morality, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reading, reis-dennis, rice, right, rules, saints, sam, series, susan, university of houston, utilitarianism, value, vida, wolf, wrong, yao
In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss two essays by Wolf: "The Role of Rules" and "Two Concepts of Rule Utilitarianism."
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Ep. 63 - Moral Obligations and Social Commands (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
cave, commands, divine, duty, ethics, god, good, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, law, life, love, meaning, moral, morality, myers, obligations, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reading, reis-dennis, rice, right, saints, sam, series, social, society, susan, theory, university of houston, value, vida, wolf, wrong, yao
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.
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Ep. 62 - Moral Saints (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
July 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 21 mins
cave, duty, ethics, good, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, life, love, meaning, moral, morality, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reading, rice, right, saints, series, susan, university of houston, value, wolf, wrong
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."
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Ep. 59 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 2)
September 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins
action, amorality, analysis, angst, cave, choice, deceit, denis, diderot, existential, existentialism, fatalist, forking, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, his, jacques, jordan, life, lying, master, meaning, mini series, morality, myers, paths, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, rider, story, suffering, suicide, tales, the, treachery, university of houston, will
Part 2 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
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Ep. 58 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 1)
September 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
action, amorality, analysis, angst, cave, choice, deceit, denis, diderot, existential, existentialism, fatalist, forking, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, his, jacques, jordan, life, lying, master, meaning, mini series, morality, myers, paths, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, rider, story, suffering, suicide, tales, the, treachery, university of houston, will
Part 1 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
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Ep. 57 - Existentialism: The Stranger, by Camus
September 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 50 mins
action, analysis, angst, camus, cave, choice, existential, existentialism, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, stranger, suffering, suicide, the, university of houston
The Stranger by Albert Camus.
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Ep. 56 - "Existentialism is a Humanism," by Sartre
September 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 35 mins
action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston
"Existentialism is a Humanism" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Ep. 55 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 2)
September 13th, 2022 | 2 hrs 2 mins
action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, interview, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston
Part 2 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.