Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
We found 9 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “experiment”.
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Ep. 43 - Garrett Pendergraft: "Free Will and Human Agency" (50 Thought Experiments)
June 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 12 mins
50, agency, borges, cave, chance, decision, deliberation, divine, ethics, experiment, fate, forking, forknowledge, free, garden, garrett, god, grad school, graduate, infallible, interview, jordan, moral, myers, omnipotence, omniscient, paradoxes, paths, pendergraft, pepperdine, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, puzzle, responsibility, routledge, thought, uncertainty, university of houston, will
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.
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Ep. 35 - FW/MR: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" by Harry Frankfurt
June 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 49 mins
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In this reading group episode, we discuss Frankfurt's famous paper, Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.
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Ep. 34 - FW/MR: "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil" by Gary Watson
June 8th, 2022 | 2 hrs 32 mins
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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.
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Ep. 33 - FW/MR: "Freedom and Resentment" by P.F. Strawson
June 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 57 mins
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In this reading group episode, we go deep into the weeds of PF Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment."
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Ep. 32 - FW/MR: The Four Case Argument and Basic Argument by Galen Strawson and Derk Pereboom
June 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
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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.
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Ep. 31 - FW/MR: SEP on Free Will and Determinism
June 4th, 2022 | 53 mins 30 secs
action, book, brain, causal, causes, cave, choice, compatiblism, compatiblist, dennett, destiny, determinism, determinist, experiment, fatalism, fate, fmri, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, harris, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, jordan, libertarian, libet, moral, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reading group, responsibility, review, sam, sep, series, stanford encyclopedia, strawson, thought, university of houston, will
In this reading group discussion episode, we discuss a follow up to our part 1 episode using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on free will and determinism.
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Ep. 30 - FW/MR: "Free Will" by Sam Harris
June 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
action, book, brain, causal, causes, cave, choice, compatiblism, compatiblist, dennett, destiny, determinism, determinist, discussion, experiment, fatalism, fate, fmri, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, harris, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, jordan, libertarian, libet, moral, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reading, responsibility, review, sam, series, strawson, thought, university of houston, weill
In this reading group discussion episode, we start a series on Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility with Sam Harris's book.
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Ep. 12 - Bernardo Kastrup: Why Materialism Cannot Explain Consciousness
August 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 18 secs
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In this episode, I speak with Bernardo Kastrup, who holds a PhD in Philosophy and Computer Engineering, about the hard problem of consciousness, idealism, theory of mind, panpsychism, and why materialistic reductionism cannot account for the fact of conscious experience.
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Ep. 5 - The Milgram and Zimbardo Experiments (& Golhagen vs Browning on Nazis)
April 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 46 mins
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In this episode, I discuss the Stanley Milgram and Phil Zimbardo experiments and what they say about our human nature. These experiments are also tied into the Browning vs Goldhagen debate on how he German population was convinced to do such terrible acts during the holocaust.