Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
Displaying all 7 Episode of Plato's Cave with the tag “retribution”.
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Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame
June 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 47 mins
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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
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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. 46 - Reactive Attitudes and Restorative Justice (PPE series prt3)
August 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 39 mins
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In part 3 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the paper "Co-Reactive Attitudes and the Making of Moral Community" by Victoria McGeer, wherein she links an adoption of P.F. Strawson's thesis about the reactive attitudes directly to the practice of restorative justice.
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Ep. 42 - FW/MR: "For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything" by Greene & Cohen
June 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 23 mins
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In this reading group episode, we wrap up the free will and moral responsibility series with a discussion of Greene and Cohen's "For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything." We talk about the legal and cultural implications of the series through the lens of Green ad Cohen's work.
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Ep. 24 - Paul Russell: Free Will, Art, and Morality (& Compatibilism)
November 18th, 2021 | 1 hr 13 mins
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In this episode, I speak with Paul Russell about his 2008 paper, "Free Will, Art, and Morality," along with more general topics within the responsibility debate, included in Paul's chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming). We discuss his case for compatibilism between determinism and moral responsibility.