Ep. 78 - Identity Arguments for Materialism: David Papineau (Consciousness pt. 5)

This was a weird episode in the sense that over half of the discussion never saw the light of day (or at least never saw your inner ear). We were quite frustrated with parsing this paper, and you can ...

24 Aug 20251h 32min

In this episode, Adam and I discuss David Chalmer's formulation of the hard problem of consciousness. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/platoscavepodc...

16 Jul 20251h 23min

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 t...

12 Jun 20251h 54min

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 min...

29 Apr 20251h 31min

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24 Apr 202510min

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? For mor...

14 Jun 20241h 47min

We dive into Srinivasan's amazing (but at the end of the day, I think not fully right) paper, "The Aptness of Anger." For more on our sponsor, please visit http://www.newlane.edu/ Here's any links y...

7 Jun 20241h 29min