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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

300 episodes

Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net

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  1. HoP 457 - Take Your Medicine - Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani

    · 20 min · Episode 457

    Natural philosophy and medicine in the work of two unorthodox thinkers of the late sixteenth century, both of them women.

  2. HoP 456 - Touch Me With Your Madness - Cervantes’ Don Quixote

    · 26 min · Episode 456

    Why do critics consider Don Quixote the first “modern” novel, and what does it tell us about the aesthetics of fiction?

  3. HoP 455 - Tom Pink on Francisco Suárez

    · 35 min · Episode 458

    We're joined by Tom Pink, who tells us about Suárez on ethics, law, religion, and the state.

  4. HoP 454 - By Appointment Only - Political Philosophy in the Second Scholastic

    · 17 min · Episode 455

    Suárez and other Iberian scholastics ask where political power comes from and under what circumstances it is exercised legitimately.

  5. HoP 453 - The Price is Right - Law and Economics in the Second Scholastic

    · 18 min · Episode 454

    Vitoria, Molina, Suárez and others develop the idea of natural law, exploring its relevance for topics including international law, slavery, and the ethics of economic exchange.

  6. HoP 452 - Better Than Nothing - Metaphysics in the Second Scholastic

    · 18 min · Episode 453

    Did the metaphysics of Francisco Suárez mark a shift from traditional scholasticism to early modern philosophy?

  7. HoP 451 - Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve - Free Will in the Second Scholastic

    · 21 min · Episode 452

    What was Luis de Molina trying to say about human free will with his doctrine of “middle knowledge,” and why did it provoke such controversy?

  8. HoP 450 - Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted - Philosophy and Two Renaissance Artworks

    · 25 min · Episode 451

    To celebrate reaching 450 episodes, Peter looks at the philosophical resonance of two famous artworks from the turn of the 16th century: Dürer’s Self-Portrait and Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel.

  9. HoP 449 - Anna Tropia on Jesuit Philosophy

    · 35 min · Episode 450

    We learn from Anna Tropia how Jesuit philosophy of mind broke new ground in the scholastic tradition.

  10. HoP 448 - Secondary Schools - Iberian Scholasticism

    · 20 min · Episode 449

    The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”

  11. HoP 447 - Andrés Messmer on Spanish Protestantism

    · 29 min · Episode 448

    Yes, there were Spanish Protestants! Andrew (Andrés) Messmer joins us to explain how they drew on humanism and philosophy to argue for their religious agenda.

  12. HoP 446 - Not Doubting Thomas - the Aquinas Revival

    · 25 min · Episode 447

    Cajetan, Bañez and other thinkers make Aquinas a central figure of Counter-Reformation thought; we focus on their theories about analogy and the soul.

  13. HoP 445 - Band of Brothers - the Jesuits

    · 22 min · Episode 446

    Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy.

  14. HoP 444 - The Dark Night Rises - Spanish Mysticism

    · 23 min · Episode 445

    Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross push the boundaries of individual spirituality and offer philosophically informed accounts of mystical experience.

  15. HoP 443 - Marketplace of Letters - Iberian Humanism

    · 22 min · Episode 443

    Fray Luis de Leon, Antonio Nebrija, Beatriz Galindo and other scholars bring the Renaissance to Spain.

  16. HoP 442 - Scott Williams on Disability and the New World

    · 43 min · Episode 444

    In this interview we learn about the main issues in modern-day philosophy of disability, and the relevance of this topic for the European encounter with the Americas.

  17. HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World

    · 21 min · Episode 442

    Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

  18. HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science

    · 18 min · Episode 441

    Iberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia becomes an encounter between European and Chinese philosophy.

  19. HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition

    · 24 min · Episode 440

    How religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century.

  20. HoP 438 - Don't Give Up Pope - Catholic Reformation

    · 18 min · Episode 439

    How the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation created a context for philosophy among Catholics, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

  21. HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy

    · 35 min · Episode 438

    An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results!

  22. HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd

    · 19 min · Episode 437

    Our last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of magic and Rosicrucianism.

  23. HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism

    · 18 min · Episode 436

    The cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism and electricity at the turn of the 17th century.

  24. HoP 434 - The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection - Theories of Vision

    · 20 min · Episode 434

    Changing ideas about eyesight, light, mirror images, and refraction – and the skeptical worries they may have inspired.

  25. HoP 433 - Nature’s Mystery - Science in Renaissance England

    · 20 min · Episode 433

    How scientists of the Elizabethan age anticipated the discoveries and methods of the Enlightenment (without necessarily publishing them).

  26. HoP 432 - If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art - John Dee

    · 22 min · Episode 432

    Science, intrigue, exploration, angelic seances! It's the life and thought of Elizabethan mathematician and magician John Dee.

  27. HoP 431 - Calvin Normore on Scholasticism

    · 30 min · Episode 435

    A discussion of the history and philosophical significance of scholasticism from medieval times to early modernity, and even today.

  28. HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism

    · 21 min · Episode 431

    The evolution of Aristotelian philosophy from John Mair in the late 15th century to John Case in the late 16th century.

  29. HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature

    · 25 min · Episode 430

    How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne Lock.

  30. HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft

    · 26 min · Episode 429

    How Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.

  31. HoP 427 - Brave New World - Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism

    · 23 min · Episode 428

    Can Shakespeare’s Tempest be read as a reflection on the English encounter with the peoples of the Americas?

  32. HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism

    · 21 min · Episode 427

    How the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play.

  33. HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare

    · 37 min · Episode 426

    We're joined by Patrick Gray to discuss Shakespeare's knowledge of philosophy, his ethics, and his influence on such thinkers as Hegel.

  34. HoP 424 - Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? - William Shakespeare

    · 18 min · Episode 425

    How should we approach Shakespeare’s plays as philosophical texts? We take as examples skepticism and politics in Othello, King Lear, and Julius Caesar.

  35. HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser

    · 25 min · Episode 424

    We begin to look at Elizabethan literature, as Sidney argues that poetry is superior to philosophy, and philosophy is put to use in Spenser’s "Fairie Queene".

  36. HoP 422 - The World’s Law - Richard Hooker

    · 24 min · Episode 423

    Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.

  37. HoP 421 - With Such Perfection Govern - English Political Thought

    · 20 min · Episode 421

    The evolution of ideas about kingship and the role of the “three estates” in 15th and 16th century England, with a focus on John Fortescue and Thomas Starkey.

  38. HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More

    · 22 min · Episode 422

    What is the message of the famous, but elusive, work "Utopia", and how can it be squared with the life of its author?

  39. HoP 419 - Write Till Your Ink Be Dry - Humanism in Britain

    · 23 min · Episode 420

    Humanism comes to England and Scotland, leading scholars like Thomas Eylot and Andrew Melville to rethink philosophical education.

  40. HoP 418 - Diarmaid MacCulloch on the British Reformations

    · 30 min · Episode 419

    A leading expert on the history of the Reformation joins us to explain the very different stories of England and Scotland in the 16th century.

  41. HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation

    · 20 min · Episode 418

    John Knox polemicizes against idolaters and female rulers, while the humanist George Buchanan argues more calmly for equally radical political conclusions.

  42. HoP 416 - God’s is the Quarrel - The English Reformation

    · 27 min · Episode 417

    The historical context of English philosophy in the sixteenth century, with particular focus on Thomas Cranmer, and the role of religion in personal conscience and social cohesion.

  43. HoP 415 - The Tenth Muse - Marie de Gournay

    · 19 min · Episode 415

    Marie le Jars de Gourney, the “adoptive daughter” of Montaigne, lays claim to his legacy and argues for the equality of the sexes.

  44. HoP 414 - Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism

    · 24 min · Episode 416

    No doubt that we're in good hands with interview guest Henrik Lagerlund, who brings his expertise in the history of skepticism to bear on the French Renaissance.

  45. HoP 413 - Don’t Be So Sure - French Skepticism

    · 21 min · Episode 414

    The sources and scope of the skepticism of Montaigne, Charron, and Sanches.

  46. HoP 412 - Not Matter, But Me - Michel de Montaigne

    · 21 min · Episode 412

    In his “Essays” Montaigne uses his wit, insight, and humanist training to tackle his favorite subject: Montaigne.

  47. HoP 411 - Pen Pals - Later French Humanism

    · 18 min · Episode 411

    Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Guillaume du Vair grapple with history and the events of their own day.

  48. HoP 410 - Ann Blair on Jean Bodin’s Natural Philosophy

    · 31 min · Episode 413

    A chat with Ann Blair about the "Theater of Nature" by Jean Bodin, and other encyclopedic works of natural philosophy.

  49. HoP 409 - One to Rule Them All - Jean Bodin

    · 26 min · Episode 409

    The polymath Jean Bodin produces a pioneering theory of political sovereignty along the way to defending the absolute power of the French king.

  50. HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots

    · 25 min · Episode 408

    Protestant French thinkers like François Hotman and Theodore Beza propose a radical political philosophy: the king rules at the pleasure of his subjects.

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