Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
Displaying all 2 Episode of Plato's Cave with the tag “awareness”.
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Ep. 76 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness
July 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 23 mins
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In this episode, Adam and I discuss David Chalmer's formulation of the hard problem of consciousness.
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Ep. 75 - Chalmers' Nonreductive Theory of Consciousness (Consciousness pt. 2)
June 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 54 mins
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In the second part of our series on the philosophy of mind, we discuss the second part of David Chalmer's seminal paper: Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness. We discuss the basics (and yes, it took 2 hours for the basics) of his nonreductive theory of consciousness.