Plato's Cave
A Philosophy Podcast by Jordan Myers (MA Student, University of Houston)
We found 10 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “attitudes”.
-
Ep. 46 - Reactive Attitudes and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt3)
August 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 39 mins
anger, attitudes, australia, cave, conflict, consequentialist, forgiveness, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, guilt, jordan, justice, mcgeer, moral, myers, offender, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, political, politics, ppe, princeton, property, punishment, reactive, reading, resentment, responsibility, restorative, retribution, retributivism, strawson, university of houston, victim, victoria
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.
-
Ep. 44 - Conflict as Property and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt1)
July 30th, 2022 | 1 hr 32 mins
as, attitudes, cave, christie, colorado, conflict, criminal, criminology, disagreement, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, justice, myers, nihls, nils, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, political, politics, ppe, prison, property, reactive, reading, restorative, ted talk, university of houston
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.
-
Ep. 40 - FW/MR: "Reply: The Free Will Revolution" by John Martin Fischer
June 14th, 2022 | 1 hr 46 mins
anger, attitudes, black, blame, case, cave, compatibilism, determinism, device, frankfurt, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, guidance, jordan, mechanism, moderate, moral, myers, pap, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reactive, reading, reasons, reply, resentment, responsibility, responsiveness, revolution, riverside, semi, semicompatibilism, uc, university of houston, watson, will
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."
-
Ep. 39 - FW/MR: "Semicompatibilism and its Rivals" by John Martin Fischer
June 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 54 mins
anger, attitudes, black, blame, case, cave, compatibilism, determinism, device, frankfurt, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, guidance, jordan, mechanism, moderate, moral, myers, pap, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reactive, reading, reasons, resentment, responsibility, responsiveness, riverside, semi, semicompatibilism, uc, university of houston, watson, will
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.
-
Ep. 36 - FW/MR: "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" by Harry Frankfurt
June 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 53 mins
action, addict, agency, agent, alternate, attitudes, black, blame, cases, causes, cave, choice, compatiblism, compatiblist, concept, control, could, desires, determinism, determinist, done, first, frankfurt, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, harry, have, impossibility, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, jones, jordan, libertarian, moral, myers, objective, of, order, otherwise, pap, person, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, possibilities, praise, principle, reactive, reading, responsibility, second, university of houston, unwilling, volition, wanton, will
In this reading group episode, we discuss Harry Frankfurt's landmark 1969 paper, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility"
-
Ep. 35 - FW/MR: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" by Harry Frankfurt
June 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 49 mins
action, addict, agency, agent, argument, attitudes, blame, book, cases, causal, causes, cave, choice, compatiblism, compatiblist, concept, desires, destiny, determinism, determinist, experiment, fatalism, fate, first, frankfurt, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, harry, impossibility, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, jordan, libertarian, moral, myers, objective, order, person, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, reactive, reading, responsibility, review, second, series, skeptic, strawson, thought, university of houston, unwilling, volition, wanton, will
In this reading group episode, we discuss Frankfurt's famous paper, Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.
-
Ep. 34 - FW/MR: "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil" by Gary Watson
June 8th, 2022 | 2 hrs 32 mins
action, address, analysis, and, argument, attitudes, basic, blame, book, brain, burgis, case, causal, causes, cave, choice, communication, compatiblism, compatiblist, demand, dennett, derk, destiny, determinism, determinist, ethics, evil, experiment, fatalism, fate, fmri, four, free, freedom, galen, gary, grad school, graduate, group, harris, impossibility, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, intelligible, jordan, killer, korsgaard, libertarian, libet, limits, moral, morality, myers, objective, of, optimist, pereboom, pessimist, peter, pf, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, reactive, reading, resentment, responsibility, review, robert, series, skeptic, strawson, summary, thought, university of houston, watson, will
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.
-
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."
-
Ep. 24 - Paul Russell: Free Will, Art, and Morality (& Compatibilism)
November 18th, 2021 | 1 hr 13 mins
2008, art, athletics, attitudes, british, cave, chance, columbia, compatibilism, determinism, ethics, evaluation, evil, fate, free, good, grad school, graduate, jordan, judgement, luck, lund, moral, morality, myers, paul, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, project, reactive, responsibility, retribution, revenge, russell, skill, strawson, watson, will, wrong
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, included in Paul's chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming). We discuss his case for compatibilism between determinism and moral responsibility.
-
Ep. 23 - Susan Wolf: On Moral Responsibility
October 22nd, 2021 | 1 hr 23 secs
act, asymmetrical, asymmetry, attitudes, blame, cave, chance, chapel, character, determinism, ethics, free, freedom, good, grad school, graduate, hill, importance, jordan, luck, moral, morality, myers, objective, of, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, reactive, reasons, responsibility, responsiveness, sommers, strawson, susan, the, unc, will, wolf
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.