Plato's Cave

Part 1 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

Part 2 of Notes from Underground. The Underground Man's past. Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions...

Part 1 of Notes from Underground. The Paradoxicalist's philosophy. Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).

In this episode, I discuss a view about Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Revisionism, with Manuel Vargas. We talk about what it means to be a revisionist about theories in general, how he thinks our view of free will should be reshaped, and how the way we talk about free will and moral responsibility shapes the way we think about the debate. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: http://v...

In part 7 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, a foundational Enlightenment document that inspired some of the United States' own formational ideas. Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1...

In part 6 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss Berlin's famous concepts of positive and negative liberty. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://cactus.utahtech.edu/green/B_Readings/I_Berlin%20Two%20Concpets%20of%20Liberty.pdf Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel...

In part 5 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I keep the Marx train going with a discussion of the Communist Manifesto, a political call to arms for the global workers of the 19th century. We talk about its historical and present day relevance. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf Twitter...

In part 4 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the pamphlet/writings of Karl Marx. We talk about the concept of estrangement or alienation with respect to present day and historical work environments and detail our own experiences with the concept. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/368/368marxestrangedtable.pd...

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. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.princeton.edu/~vmcgeer/papers/McG...

In part 2 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the paper "What is the Point of Equality?" by Elizabeth Anderson, which investigated the role of luck in creating egalitarian outcomes. Anderson focuses on a capabilities approach to political equality which differs from some common intuitions held by luck egalitarians. Here's any links you'll need to dive deep...

In part 1 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, we discuss the formative paper "Conflict as Property" by Nils Christie along with some of its more modern applications in restorative justice. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://criminologiacabana.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/nils-christie-conflicts-as-property.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLPZy2wW-x8 https://www.y...

In this episode, I speak with Garrett Pendergraft about his forthcoming book: FREE WILL AND HUMAN AGENCY: 50 PUZZLES, PARADOXES, AND THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS, which will be out in July 2022! We discuss three chapters on the Garden of Forking Paths, Uncertainty and Deliberation, and Divine Foreknowledge. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/garrett...

In this reading group episode, we wrap up the free will and moral responsibility series with a discussion of Green 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. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693457/ Twitter...

In this reading group episode, Giffin, Adam, Brian, and I talk about the crazy (in the best way) paper by Susan Wolf, "Asymmetrical Freedom." Can we be responsible for bad actions? Only good ones? What does the role of determinism do to our judgements? Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2025667 https://diversifyingsyllabi.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/1/8/38180217/s...

In this reading group episode, Adam, Giffin, Brian, and I follow up on JMF's reasons-responsive view of responsibility by looking to an earlier paper of his: "Reply: The Free Will Revolution." Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://philpapers.org/rec/FISRTF Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www....

In this reading group episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss reasons-responsive compatibilism by looking into J.M.F.'s work, excellently laid out in this article. We also discuss JMF's critique of Frankfurt's second order desire account. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41486954 Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscave...

In this reading group episode, Adam, Brian, Giffin, and I discuss "The Importance of Free Will" by Susan Wolf, a discussion spawned by our disagreements in the previous episode about the plausibility of Sommers 2007. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2253093 Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Yo...

In this reading group episode, we discuss "The Objective Attitude" by Tamler Sommers. Giffin thinks that he could happily exist in this state - Adam and I strongly disagree. Brian join us for the rest of the series! Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.487.x Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me...

In this reading group episode, we discuss Harry Frankfurt's landmark 1969 paper, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2023833 Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polym...

In this reading group episode, we discuss Frankfurt's famous paper, Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2024717 Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true Plato's...

In this reading group episode, we discuss Gary Watson's paper on Intelligible Moral Demand being a way to view the debate on moral responsibility. That paper is his Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.101515!/file/watson-responsibility-limits-of-evil.pdf Twitter: @Jordan_C_M...

In this reading group episode, we go deep into the weeds of PF Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment." Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: PDF: http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/zucchi/NuoviFile/Freedom_and_Resentment.pdf Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?dis...

In this reading group discussion episode, we discuss Galen Strawson's "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility" and Derk Pereboom's Four Case Argument against compatibilism. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/551587e0e4b0ce927f09707f/t/57b5d14de58c624a6d3a5e99/1471533403405/Strawson%2C+The+Impossibility+of+Moral+Responsibility.pdf https://philosoph...

In this reading group discussion episode, we discuss a follow up to our part 1 episode using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on free will and determinism. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/ Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepod...

In this reading group discussion episode, we start a series on Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility with Sam Harris's book. Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guests:...