Giffin (Reading Group Discussions)
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My name is Giffin, and I studied biology and economics at RPI and work in human health research. There's interesting overlap between both my fields of study and philosophy, and I've been particularly interested in exploring political theory.
Giffin (Reading Group Discussions) has been a guest on 38 episodes.
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Ep. 35 - FW/MR: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" by Harry Frankfurt
June 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 49 mins
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In this reading group episode, we discuss Frankfurt's famous paper, Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.
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Ep. 34 - FW/MR: "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil" by Gary Watson
June 8th, 2022 | 2 hrs 32 mins
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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.
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Ep. 33 - FW/MR: "Freedom and Resentment" by P.F. Strawson
June 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 57 mins
action, analysis, and, argument, attitudes, basic, blame, book, brain, burgis, case, causal, causes, cave, choice, compatiblism, compatiblist, dennett, derk, destiny, determinism, determinist, ethics, experiment, fatalism, fate, fmri, four, free, freedom, galen, grad school, graduate, group, impossibility, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, jordan, korsgaard, libertarian, libet, moral, morality, myers, objective, optimist, pereboom, pessimist, peter, pf, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, reactive, reading, resentment, responsibility, review, series, skeptic, strawson, summary, thought, university of houston, will
In this reading group episode, we go deep into the weeds of PF Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment."
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Ep. 32 - FW/MR: The Four Case Argument and Basic Argument by Galen Strawson and Derk Pereboom
June 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
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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.
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Ep. 31 - FW/MR: SEP on Free Will and Determinism
June 4th, 2022 | 53 mins 30 secs
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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.
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Ep. 30 - FW/MR: "Free Will" by Sam Harris
June 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
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In this reading group discussion episode, we start a series on Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility with Sam Harris's book.