Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
We found 10 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “reading”.
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Ep. 75 - Chalmers' Nonreductive Theory of Consciousness (Consciousness pt. 2)
June 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 54 mins
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In the second part of our series on the philosophy of mind, we discuss the second part of David Chalmer's seminal paper: Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness. We discuss the basics (and yes, it took 2 hours for the basics) of his nonreductive theory of consciousness.
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Ep. 74 - Mary the Color Scientist (Consciousness pt. 1)
April 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 31 mins
cave, color, consciousness, dualism, epiphenomenalism, experience, frank, grad school, graduate, group, jackson, jordan, mary, mind, myers, phd, philosophy, physicalism, plato, plato's cave, reading, scientist, university of houston, university of southern california, usc
In the first episode of this new series on the philosophy of mind, we dive into Frank Jackson's famous paper, "What Mary Didn't Know." The paper and conversation raises questions about whether the mind is merely physical and how intuitions play a role in this philosophical debate.
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Plato's Cave: The Return
April 24th, 2025 | 10 mins 42 secs
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I'm doing my PhD at the University of Southern California!
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Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame
June 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 47 mins
amia, anger, angry, aptness, blame, cave, disappointment, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, franklin, furies, grad school, graduate, grief, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, sher, srinivasan, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
In the final discussion of the series, we dive into Franklin's work on the value of angry blame: can anger best--really, only--express certain features of am adequate response to wrongdoing?
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Ep. 72 - Amia Srinivasan: The Aptness of Anger
June 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
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We dive into Srinivasan's amazing (but at the end of the day, I think not fully right) paper, "The Aptness of Anger."
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Ep. 71 - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness (Part 2)
March 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins
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Part two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness.
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Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1)
March 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 48 mins
anger, angry, cave, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, furies, grad school, graduate, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
In the second episode of our series on anger, we dive into the first chapters of Martha Nussbaum's recent book, Anger and Forgiveness. The first two chapters focus on the myth of payback's value.
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Ep. 69 - Anger: Seneca & Stoicism
February 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 51 mins
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Episode 1 of a new series on the philosophy of emotion--specifically, anger. We discuss some introductory questions and Seneca's 'On Anger.'
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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.