Plato's Cave

A Philosophy Podcast by Jordan Myers (MA Student, University of Houston)

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Ep. 61 - Glen Pettigrove: Meekness and Moral Anger

April 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins

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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.
Ep. 60 - Cameron Boult: Epistemic Blame & Relationship Modification

November 21st, 2022 | 56 mins

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I speak with Cameron Boult about his series of papers and forthcoming book on epistemic blame: what it means, when it's appropriate, and how we modify our epistemic relationships with others.
Ep. 59 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 2)

September 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins

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Part 2 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
Ep. 58 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 1)

September 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins

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Part 1 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
Ep. 57 - Existentialism: The Stranger, by Camus

September 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 50 mins

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The Stranger by Albert Camus.
Ep. 56 - "Existentialism is a Humanism," by Sartre

September 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 35 mins

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"Existentialism is a Humanism" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Ep. 55 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 2)

September 13th, 2022 | 2 hrs 2 mins

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Part 2 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Ep. 54 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 1)

September 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins

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Part 1 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Ep. 53 - Existentialism: Notes from Underground, by Dostoyevsky (PART 2)

September 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 56 mins

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Part 2 of Notes from Underground. The Underground Man's past.
Ep. 52 - Existentialism: Notes from Underground, by Dostoyevsky (PART 1)

September 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 46 mins

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Part 1 of Notes from Underground. The Paradoxicalist's philosophy.