Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
Displaying 10 items of Plato's Cave with the tag "mind".
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Ep. 78 - Identity Arguments for Materialism: David Papineau (Consciousness pt. 5)
August 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 33 mins
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In a much more enjoyable article, David Papineau argues for materialism with respect to consciousness by arguing that the mental and physical are identical, and identities don't need explaining. (Please excuse the instances of weird underwater-sounding audio...I have no clue what happened there.)
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Ep. 77 - Epiphenomenalism, Naturally (Consciousness pt. 4)
August 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 32 mins
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This was a weird episode in the sense that over half of the discussion never saw the light of day (or at least never saw your inner ear). We were quite frustrated with parsing this paper, and you can start to hear that in the final third. It's a paper called "Epiphenomenalism, Naturally," which I think is better read than discussed. But, either way, here's our discussion.
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Ep. 76 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness (pt. 3)
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.
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Ep. 74 - Mary the Color Scientist (Consciousness pt. 1)
April 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 31 mins
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In the first episode of this new series on the philosophy of mind, we dive into Frank Jackson's famous paper, "What Mary Didn't Know." The paper and conversation raises questions about whether the mind is merely physical and how intuitions play a role in this philosophical debate.
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Ep. 41 - FW/MR: "Asymmetrical Freedom" by Susan Wolf
June 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 42 mins
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In this reading group episode, Giffin, Adam, Brian, and I talk about the crazy (in the best way) paper by Susan Wolf, "Asymmetrical Freedom." Can we be responsible for bad actions? Only good ones? What does the role of determinism do to our judgements?
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Ep. 17 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism
December 16th, 2020 | 59 mins 20 secs
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In this episode, I speak with Dr. Phillip Goff about Panpsychism. We discuss what we mean by consciousness, why materialist reductionism doesn't satisfy as an explanation of its existence, and what Panpsychism can offer as a theory of consciousness.
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Ep. 16 - Patrick Lee Miller: Be Right Back and The Entire History of You
October 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 46 mins
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In this episode, I speak with Dr. Patrick Lee Miller about two episodes of the phenomenal Netflix series, Black Mirror: BE Right Back and The Entire History of You. We discuss the episode's themes of grief, loss of self to technology, memory, loved ones, relationships, jealousy, and more. This was a ton of fun and I hope you enjoy it as well!
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Ep. 13 - David Papineau: Materialism and Consciousness
August 23rd, 2020 | 52 mins 28 secs
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In this episode, I talk with David Papineau about his rejection of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, how dualism infects thinking about theory of mind, and how materialism is the best account of why we have experiences.
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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.