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

action, analysis, angst, camus, cave, choice, existential, existentialism, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, stranger, suffering, suicide, the, university of houston

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

September 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 35 mins

action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston

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

September 13th, 2022 | 2 hrs 2 mins

action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, interview, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston

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

September 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins

action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston

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.