Plato's Cave
A Philosophy Podcast by Jordan Myers (MA Student, University of Houston)
We found 6 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “anger”.
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Ep. 68 - Sukaina Hirji: Outrage and the Bound of Empathy
September 12th, 2023 | 54 mins 38 secs
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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.
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Ep. 61 - Glen Pettigrove: Meekness and Moral Anger
April 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
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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.
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Ep. 46 - Reactive Attitudes and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt3)
August 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 39 mins
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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.
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Ep. 40 - FW/MR: "Reply: The Free Will Revolution" by John Martin Fischer
June 14th, 2022 | 1 hr 46 mins
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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."
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Ep. 39 - FW/MR: "Semicompatibilism and its Rivals" by John Martin Fischer
June 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 54 mins
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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.
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Ep. 22 - John Martin Fischer: Moral Responsibility Semicompatibilism
September 16th, 2021 | 1 hr 8 mins
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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.