Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
Displaying 2 items of Plato's Cave with the tag "metaphysics".
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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. 3 - Alastair Wilson: The Nature of Contingency
March 20th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
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In this episode, I spoke with Professor Alastair Wilson about his newly released book, The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism. We spoke about contingency, counterfactuals, the multiple worlds interpretation of quantum physics, free will, and more.