Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
Displaying items 1-10 of 29 in total of Plato's Cave with the tag "moral".
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Ep. 67 - Two Levels of Pluralism (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 31st, 2023 | 1 hr 27 mins
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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!
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Ep. 66 - Moral Luck (Celebrating Susan Wolf [& Bernard Williams])
August 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 16 mins
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In this episode, we discuss the seminal paper "Moral Luck" by Bernard Williams and a new replies to the problem of moral luck.
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Ep. 65 - The Role of Rules (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 45 mins
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In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss two essays by Wolf: "The Role of Rules" and "Two Concepts of Rule Utilitarianism."
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Ep. 64 - Above and Below the Line of Duty (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 26 mins
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In this episode, we discuss an underrated paper by Wolf. We discuss the connection between decency, moral duty, and reasonably violating your obligations.
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Ep. 63 - Moral Obligations and Social Commands (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
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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.
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Ep. 62 - Moral Saints (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
July 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 21 mins
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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."
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Ep. 51 - Manuel Vargas: Free Will Revisionism
August 19th, 2022 | 8 mins 16 secs
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In this episode, I discuss a view about Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Revisionism, with Manuel Vargas. We talk about what it means to be a revisionist about theories in general, how he thinks our view of free will should be reshaped, and how the way we talk about free will and moral responsibility shapes the way we think about the debate.
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Ep. 46 - Reactive Attitudes and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt3)
August 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 39 mins
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In part 3 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the paper "Co-Reactive Attitudes and the Making of Moral Community" by Victoria McGeer, wherein she links an adoption of P.F. Strawson's thesis about the reactive attitudes directly to the practice of restorative justice.
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Ep. 43 - Garrett Pendergraft: "Free Will and Human Agency" (50 Thought Experiments)
June 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 12 mins
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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. 40 - FW/MR: "Reply: The Free Will Revolution" by John Martin Fischer
June 14th, 2022 | 1 hr 46 mins
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In this reading group episode, Adam, Giffin, Brian, and I follow up on JMF's reasons-responsive view of responsibility by looking to an earlier paper of his: "Reply: The Free Will Revolution."