Plato's Cave - Episodes Tagged with “Ethics”

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.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.sukaina-hirji.com/
https://philpapers.org/archive/HIROAT.pdf

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Special Guest: Sukaina Hirji.

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Ep. 67 - Two Levels of Pluralism (Celebrating Susan Wolf)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:00:00 -0700

In the final episode of the series, we discuss Wolf's article "Two Levels of Pluralism" which investigates whether pluralism reduces into relativism. Spoiler--it doesn't!

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2381554
Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David Pizzaro -- @peez on twitter (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beats-without-7-85632085?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTo1YWQ5NGE0OS00MGZkLTRhNGYtOGY0YS1kOTA3YWMwNDdhNTEiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NTYzMjA4NSwicGF0cm9uX2lkIjoxMDM2MDAwNn0.zgQGZdKQYiw3CV6QGXGh_mDztFYYmY04o8IYrdPoXd8)

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 66 - Moral Luck (Celebrating Susan Wolf [& Bernard Williams])

Jordan Myers — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:00:00 -0700

In this episode, we discuss the seminal paper "Moral Luck" by Bernard Williams and a new replies to the problem of moral luck.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://bibliotecamathom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/williams_-_moral_luck.pdf
Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David Pizzaro -- @peez on twitter (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beats-without-7-85632085?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTo1YWQ5NGE0OS00MGZkLTRhNGYtOGY0YS1kOTA3YWMwNDdhNTEiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NTYzMjA4NSwicGF0cm9uX2lkIjoxMDM2MDAwNn0.zgQGZdKQYiw3CV6QGXGh_mDztFYYmY04o8IYrdPoXd8)

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 65 - The Role of Rules (Celebrating Susan Wolf)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 04:00:00 -0700

In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss two essays by Wolf: "The Role of Rules" and "Two Concepts of Rule Utilitarianism."

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://academic.oup.com/book/3673/chapter-abstract/145027481?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David Pizzaro -- @peez on twitter (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beats-without-7-85632085?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTo1YWQ5NGE0OS00MGZkLTRhNGYtOGY0YS1kOTA3YWMwNDdhNTEiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NTYzMjA4NSwicGF0cm9uX2lkIjoxMDM2MDAwNn0.zgQGZdKQYiw3CV6QGXGh_mDztFYYmY04o8IYrdPoXd8)

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 64 - Above and Below the Line of Duty (Celebrating Susan Wolf)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 04:00:00 -0700

In this episode, we discuss an underrated paper by Wolf. We discuss the connection between decency, moral duty, and reasonably violating your obligations.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43153984
Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David Pizzaro -- @peez on twitter (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beats-without-7-85632085?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTo1YWQ5NGE0OS00MGZkLTRhNGYtOGY0YS1kOTA3YWMwNDdhNTEiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NTYzMjA4NSwicGF0cm9uX2lkIjoxMDM2MDAwNn0.zgQGZdKQYiw3CV6QGXGh_mDztFYYmY04o8IYrdPoXd8)

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Ep. 63 - Moral Obligations and Social Commands (Celebrating Susan Wolf)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0700

In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss Wolf's essay "Moral Obligations and Social Commands," which asks where the true authority of moral enforcement originates from.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://academic.oup.com/book/3673/chapter-abstract/145029050?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 62 - Moral Saints (Celebrating Susan Wolf)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:00:00 -0700

A new (mini) series! This begins a 6 part series on the moral philosophy of Susan Wolf in conjunction with a graduate seminar I took at Rice in the Fall of 2022. This episode is a discussion of her famous essay "Moral Saints."

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/26834/files/3753058/download?verifier=m6bBkOI2cZxGBVt4DVnqJUaGQK9RjbeqUHx1wG50&wrap=1
Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David Pizzaro -- @peez on twitter (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beats-without-7-85632085?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTo1YWQ5NGE0OS00MGZkLTRhNGYtOGY0YS1kOTA3YWMwNDdhNTEiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NTYzMjA4NSwicGF0cm9uX2lkIjoxMDM2MDAwNn0.zgQGZdKQYiw3CV6QGXGh_mDztFYYmY04o8IYrdPoXd8)

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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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.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
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

Special Guest: Glen Pettigrove.

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Ep. 56 - "Existentialism is a Humanism," by Sartre

Jordan Myers — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0700

"Existentialism is a Humanism" by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 55 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 2)

Jordan Myers — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:00:00 -0700

Part 2 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 54 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 1)

Jordan Myers — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0700

Part 1 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 43 - Garrett Pendergraft: "Free Will and Human Agency" (50 Thought Experiments)

Jordan Myers — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0700

In this episode, I speak with Garrett Pendergraft about his forthcoming book: FREE WILL AND HUMAN AGENCY: 50 PUZZLES, PARADOXES, AND THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS, which will be out in July 2022! We discuss three chapters on the Garden of Forking Paths, Uncertainty and Deliberation, and Divine Foreknowledge.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/garrett-pendergraft/#:~:text=Most%20of%20his%20research%20focuses,foreknowledge%2C%20and%20situationism%20in%20psychology.
https://www.routledge.com/Free-Will-and-Human-Agency-50-Puzzles-Paradoxes-and-Thought-Experiments/Pendergraft/p/book/9780367641948

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Special Guest: Garrett Pendergraft .

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Ep. 34 - FW/MR: "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil" by Gary Watson

Jordan Myers — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 02:15:00 -0700

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.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.101515!/file/watson-responsibility-limits-of-evil.pdf

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 33 - FW/MR: "Freedom and Resentment" by P.F. Strawson

Jordan Myers — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0700

In this reading group episode, we go deep into the weeds of PF Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment."
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
PDF:http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/zucchi/NuoviFile/Freedom_and_Resentment.pdf

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 32 - FW/MR: The Four Case Argument and Basic Argument by Galen Strawson and Derk Pereboom

Jordan Myers — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0700

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.
Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/551587e0e4b0ce927f09707f/t/57b5d14de58c624a6d3a5e99/1471533403405/Strawson%2C+The+Impossibility+of+Moral+Responsibility.pdf
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2015/01/perebooms-four-case-argument-against.html

Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

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Ep. 26 - Adam Kadlac: Objectification in Sports

Jordan Myers — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 07:45:00 -0800

In this episode, I speak with Adam Kadlac about a chapter in his newly published book, The Ethics of Sports Fandom. We discuss the pitfalls of objectification within various areas of athletics and from different perspectives. You can purchase the full book now!

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-of-Sports-Fandom/Kadlac/p/book/9781032122311
https://www.adamkadlac.com/

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Every dollar that comes in will go towards bettering the show or towards funding my Philosophy PhD.

Special Guest: Adam Kadlac.

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Ep. 24 - Paul Russell: Free Will, Art, and Morality (& Compatibilism)

Jordan Myers — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

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, which are included in Paul's chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming). We discuss his case for compatibilism between determinism and moral responsibility.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://sites.google.com/site/paulrussellubc/home
Paper PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/170S_5xE4tXiPwUiGum7S9gUry26N8uHY/view?usp=sharing

Special Guest: Paul Russell.

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Ep. 23 - Susan Wolf: On Moral Responsibility

Jordan Myers — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:00:00 -0700

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.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://philosophy.unc.edu/people/susan-wolf/

Special Guest: Susan Wolf.

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Ep. 20 - Per-Erik Milam: Letting Go & Forgiveness

Jordan Myers — Sat, 08 May 2021 10:00:00 -0700

In this episode, I speak with Per Milam about his recent work on letting go as an alternative to forgiveness. These topics naturally touch on the practices of blame and responsibility and Strawson's reactive attitudes.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
http://www.pererikmilam.com/

Special Guest: Per-Erik Milam.

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Ep. 19 - Derek Leben: Pascal's Wager & Anti-Natalism for AI

Jordan Myers — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:00:00 -0700

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Derek Leben about his recent Philosophy Now article, Pascal’s Artificial Intelligence Wager. We talk about Pascal's wager applied to AI, the control problem, consciousness, our ability to control the course of AI development, and the meaning that grounds moral realism.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://philosophynow.org/issues/139/Pascals_Artificial_Intelligence_Wager
https://www.derekleben.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Robots-Design-Moral-Algorithm-ebook/dp/B07FN629T6

Special Guest: Derek Leben.

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Ep. 18 - Tamar Schapiro: Weakness of Will

Jordan Myers — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0700

In this episode, I speak with philosopher Tamar Schapiro about her work on weak willed action from a Kantian perspective. This all relates to her forthcoming book, Feeling Like it: a Theory of Inclination and Will.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/feeling-like-it-9780198862932?facet_narrowbyreleaseDate_facet=Released%20this%20month&lang=en&cc=us
https://philosophy.mit.edu/schapiro/
https://philpeople.org/profiles/tamar-schapiro

Special Guest: Tamar Schapiro.

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Ep. 15 - Brandon Warmke: Moral Grandstanding

Jordan Myers — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0700

In this episode, I speak with Brandon Warmke about his new book, Grandstanding, which he co-authored with Justin Tosi. Brandon is a professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University. I highly recommend the book, and I hope this talk does it justice. I very much enjoyed speaking with Brandon, and I hope you enjoy our conversation as well.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.amazon.com/Grandstanding-Use-Abuse-Moral-Talk/dp/0190900156?SubscriptionId=AKIAIA3UEVTLIG7AIKFA&tag=&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0190900156
http://brandonwarmke.com/
https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/philosophy/faculty-and-staff/brandon-warmke.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/papa.12075

Plato's Cave is produced by a non-profit organization centered around public education on high-minded topics, Muckraker Media, which I co-founded. You can find out more by visiting muckrakermedia.org

Special Guest: Brandon Warmke.

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Ep. 2.9 - Moral Hypocrisy

Jordan Myers — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:00:00 -0700

In this episode, Giffin, Jordan, Brian, and Adam talk about what moral hypocrisy is and what it is not. Plus, how bad is being a moral hypocrite really? Is is actually worse to be a hypocrite than just lie? Find out in this episode.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/opinion/sunday/the-real-problem-with-hypocrisy.html
https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/antisocial-behavior/moral-hypocrisy/
https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10677-015-9574-8
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1888/5e8a936ba893d8e8f96aa6933186afa10ba4.pdf

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Every dollar that comes in will go towards bettering the show or towards funding my Philosophy PhD.

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Or by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com

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Ep. 2.5 - Aristotelian Virtue Ethics vs Consequentialism

Jordan Myers — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0700

In this episode, In this episode, Jordan, Brian, and Adam discuss the possible shortcomings of Aristotelian ethics as opposed to consequentialism or deontology. Plus, a quibble on moral relativism.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5SXgyN93usom5vpRqlEQ/

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Or by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com

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