Plato's Cave
A Philosophy Podcast by Jordan Myers (MA Student, University of Houston)
We found 2 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “reduction”.
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Ep. 17 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism
December 16th, 2020 | 59 mins 20 secs
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In this episode, I speak with Dr. Phillip Goff about Panpsychism. We discuss what we mean by consciousness, why materialist reductionism doesn't satisfy as an explanation of its existence, and what Panpsychism can offer as a theory of consciousness.
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Ep. 13 - David Papineau: Materialism and Consciousness
August 23rd, 2020 | 52 mins 28 secs
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In this episode, I talk with David Papineau about his rejection of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, how dualism infects thinking about theory of mind, and how materialism is the best account of why we have experiences.