Plato's Cave - Episodes Tagged with “Anger”

Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame

Jordan Myers — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0700

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

Jordan Myers — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:00:00 -0700

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)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0700

Part two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness.

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Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0800

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

Jordan Myers — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:00:00 -0800

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. 68 - Sukaina Hirji: Outrage and the Bound of Empathy

Jordan Myers — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:00:00 -0700

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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https://www.sukaina-hirji.com/
https://philpapers.org/archive/HIROAT.pdf

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Ep. 61 - Glen Pettigrove: Meekness and Moral Anger

Jordan Myers — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 02:00:00 -0700

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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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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Ep. 46 - Reactive Attitudes and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt3)

Jordan Myers — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0700

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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https://www.princeton.edu/~vmcgeer/papers/McGeer2010CoreactiveMS.pdf
https://platoscave.fireside.fm/33

Special Guests: Adam (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

Jordan Myers — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:00:00 -0700

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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https://philpapers.org/rec/FISRTF

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Ep. 39 - FW/MR: "Semicompatibilism and its Rivals" by John Martin Fischer

Jordan Myers — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:00:00 -0700

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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https://www.jstor.org/stable/41486954

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Ep. 22 - John Martin Fischer: Moral Responsibility Semicompatibilism

Jordan Myers — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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.

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Special Guest: John Martin Fischer .

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