I'm Jordan Myers and I'm a PhD student studying philosophy at USC. Plato's Cave is my attempt to exit... well, the cave. It's a philosophy podcast meant to help me guide my ascent to the real world, the truth, the place where life is worth living; and apparently that means giving up a regular job with good pay to pursue the security of the academic job market - the philosophy job market nonetheless! Join me on my journey as I cover philosophical works and speak with the best philosophical minds I can convince to come on the show!
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Ep. 78 - Identity Arguments for Materialism: David Papineau (Consciousness pt. 5)
In a much more enjoyable article, David Papineau argues for materialism with respect to consciousness by arguing that the mental and physical are identical, and identities don't need explaining. (Please excuse the instances of weird underwater-sounding audio...I have no clue what happened there.)
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24 Aug 2025
Ep. 77 - Epiphenomenalism, Naturally (Consciousness pt. 4)
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 start to hear that in the final third. It's a paper called "Epiphenomenalism, Naturally," which I think is better read than discussed. But, either way, here's our discussion.
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Special Guests: Adam (Reading Group Discussions) and Giffin (Reading Group Discussions).
Support Plato's Cave (https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers)
16 Jul 2025
Ep. 76 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness (pt. 3)
In this episode, Adam and I discuss David Chalmer's formulation of the hard problem of consciousness.
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Twitter: @Jordan_C_Myers
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Email: platoscavepodcast@gmail.com (mailto:platoscavepodcast@gmail.com)
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Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ (https://platoscave.fireside.fm/)
Special Guest: Adam (Reading Group Discussions).
Support Plato's Cave (https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers)
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