Plato's Cave
A Philosophy Podcast by Jordan Myers (MA Student, University of Houston)
We found 10 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “morality”.
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Ep. 61 - Glen Pettigrove: Meekness and Moral Anger
April 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
anger, angry, apt, cave, communication, epistemic, ethics, evaluation, evidence, fight, grad school, graduate, hume, injustice, interview, jordan, meek, meekness, morality, motivation, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, pride, rage, reasoning, sports, srinivasan, thinking, university of houston, value, vice, virtue, wicked, wrong
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.
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Ep. 59 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 2)
September 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins
action, amorality, analysis, angst, cave, choice, deceit, denis, diderot, existential, existentialism, fatalist, forking, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, his, jacques, jordan, life, lying, master, meaning, mini series, morality, myers, paths, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, rider, story, suffering, suicide, tales, the, treachery, university of houston, will
Part 2 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
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Ep. 58 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 1)
September 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
action, amorality, analysis, angst, cave, choice, deceit, denis, diderot, existential, existentialism, fatalist, forking, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, his, jacques, jordan, life, lying, master, meaning, mini series, morality, myers, paths, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, rider, story, suffering, suicide, tales, the, treachery, university of houston, will
Part 1 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
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Ep. 38 - FW/MR: "The Importance of Free Will" by Susan Wolf
June 12th, 2022 | 2 hrs 37 mins
attitude, blame, cave, communication, free, grad school, graduate, group, hollow, interpersonal, jordan, love, meaning, moral responsibility, morality, myers, objective, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, pride, reactive, reading, regret, relationships, ring, shallow, shame, sommers, susan, tamler, the, university of houston, will, wolf
In this reading group episode, Adam, Brian, Giffin, and I discuss "The Importance of Free Will" by Susan Wolf, a discussion spawned by our disagreements in the previous episode about the plausibility of Sommers 2007.
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Ep. 34 - FW/MR: "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil" by Gary Watson
June 8th, 2022 | 2 hrs 32 mins
action, address, analysis, and, argument, attitudes, basic, blame, book, brain, burgis, case, causal, causes, cave, choice, communication, compatiblism, compatiblist, demand, dennett, derk, destiny, determinism, determinist, ethics, evil, experiment, fatalism, fate, fmri, four, free, freedom, galen, gary, grad school, graduate, group, harris, impossibility, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, intelligible, jordan, killer, korsgaard, libertarian, libet, limits, moral, morality, myers, objective, of, optimist, pereboom, pessimist, peter, pf, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, reactive, reading, resentment, responsibility, review, robert, series, skeptic, strawson, summary, thought, university of houston, watson, will
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
action, analysis, and, argument, attitudes, basic, blame, book, brain, burgis, case, causal, causes, cave, choice, compatiblism, compatiblist, dennett, derk, destiny, determinism, determinist, ethics, experiment, fatalism, fate, fmri, four, free, freedom, galen, grad school, graduate, group, impossibility, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, jordan, korsgaard, libertarian, libet, moral, morality, myers, objective, optimist, pereboom, pessimist, peter, pf, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, reactive, reading, resentment, responsibility, review, series, skeptic, strawson, summary, thought, university of houston, will
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
action, analysis, argument, basic, ben, book, brain, burgis, case, causal, causes, cave, choice, compatiblism, compatiblist, dennett, derk, destiny, determinism, determinist, ethics, experiment, fatalism, fate, fmri, four, free, freedom, galen, grad school, graduate, impossibility, incompatiblism, incompatiblist, jordan, korsgaard, libertarian, libet, moral, morality, myers, pereboom, peter, pf, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, plum, professor, reading group, responsibility, review, series, strawson, summary, thought, university of houston, white, will
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. 26 - Adam Kadlac: Objectification in Sports
December 29th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
4, adam, athlete, autonomy, body, cave, chapter, danger, ethics, fan, fandom, forest, grad school, graduate, jordan, kadlac, morality, myers, nussbaum, objectification, owner, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, reactive objective, respect, risk, sport, sports, wake
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!
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Ep. 24 - Paul Russell: Free Will, Art, and Morality (& Compatibilism)
November 18th, 2021 | 1 hr 13 mins
2008, art, athletics, attitudes, british, cave, chance, columbia, compatibilism, determinism, ethics, evaluation, evil, fate, free, good, grad school, graduate, jordan, judgement, luck, lund, moral, morality, myers, paul, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, project, reactive, responsibility, retribution, revenge, russell, skill, strawson, watson, will, wrong
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, included in Paul's chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming). We discuss his case for compatibilism between determinism and moral responsibility.
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Ep. 23 - Susan Wolf: On Moral Responsibility
October 22nd, 2021 | 1 hr 23 secs
act, asymmetrical, asymmetry, attitudes, blame, cave, chance, chapel, character, determinism, ethics, free, freedom, good, grad school, graduate, hill, importance, jordan, luck, moral, morality, myers, objective, of, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, praise, reactive, reasons, responsibility, responsiveness, sommers, strawson, susan, the, unc, will, wolf
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.