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 “philosophy”.
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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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ep. 57 - Existentialism: The Stranger, by Camus
September 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 50 mins
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The Stranger by Albert Camus.
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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.
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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.
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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.