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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 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration

    · 30 min · Episode 410

    An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Locke and Leibniz.

  2. HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France

    · 18 min · Episode 407

    Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian Castellio.

  3. HoP 405 - Divide and Conquer - the Spread of Ramism

    · 20 min · Episode 404

    The methods of Peter Ramus sweep across Europe, winning adherents and facing stiff opposition in equal measure.

  4. HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus

    · 27 min · Episode 406

    A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.

  5. HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus

    · 21 min · Episode 403

    Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.

  6. Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1

    · 45 min · Episode 405

    Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Notre Dame Press. Pre-order with the code 14FF20 from undpress.nd.edu,…

  7. HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France

    · 20 min · Episode 402

    Challenges to Galenic medical orthodoxy from natural philosophy: Jean Fernel with his idea of the human’s “total substance,” and the Paracelsans.

  8. HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France

    · 24 min · Episode 401

    Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.

  9. HoP 400 - Philosophy Podcasters

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 400

    Peter chats with the hosts of three great philosophy podcasts: Elucidations, Hi-Phi Nation, and the Unmute Podcast.

  10. HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais

    · 22 min · Episode 399

    In his outrageous novel about Pantagruel and Gargantua, Rabelais engages with scholasticism, humanism, medicine, the reformation, and the querelle des femmes.

  11. HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre

    · 24 min · Episode 398

    A Renaissance queen supports philosophical humanism and produces literary works on spirituality, love, and the soul.

  12. HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism

    · 23 min · Episode 397

    We begin to look at philosophy in Renaissance France, beginning with humanists like Budé and the use of classical philosophy by poets du Bellay and Ronsard.

  13. HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

    · 35 min · Episode 394

    Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extraordinary events they called "wonders".

  14. HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler

    · 25 min · Episode 396

    Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.

  15. HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe

    · 23 min · Episode 395

    Responses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho Brahe.

  16. HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus

    · 28 min · Episode 393

    How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?

  17. HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism

    · 30 min · Episode 392

    John Sellars returns to the podcast to discuss Lipsius' work on Seneca and the early modern Neo-Stoic movement.

  18. HoP 391 - Everything is Mine and Nothing - Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism

    · 21 min · Episode 391

    Justus Lipsius draws on Seneca and other Stoics to counsel peace of mind in the face of political chaos, but also writes a work on how such chaos can be avoided.

  19. HoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands

    · 27 min · Episode 390

    Amidst religious conflict in the Netherlands, Dirck Coornhert pleads for religious toleration and freedom of expression.

  20. HoP 389 - The Acid Test - Theories of Matter

    · 19 min · Episode 389

    Schegk, Taurellus, Gorlaeus, and Sennert revive atomism to explain chemical reactions, the composition of bodies, and the generation of organisms.

  21. HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy

    · 22 min · Episode 388

    Paracelsus adapts the tradition of alchemical science for use in medicine, and in the process overturns the scientific theories of Aristotle and Galen.

  22. HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy

    · 32 min · Episode 387

    An interview with Helen Hattab on the scope and impact of scholastic philosophy among Protestants.

  23. HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa

    · 21 min · Episode 386

    Was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa a dark magician, a pious skeptic, or both?

  24. HoP 385 - I Too Can Ask Questions - Protestant Scholasticism

    · 20 min · Episode 385

    In a surprise twist, some Protestant thinkers embrace the methods of scholasticism, and even find something to admire in the work of Catholic authors like Aquinas.

  25. HoP 384 - We Are Not Our Own - John Calvin

    · 23 min · Episode 384

    John Calvin's views on predestination and the limits of human reason.

  26. HoP 383 - Slowly But Surely - Huldrych Zwingli

    · 24 min · Episode 383

    The Swiss theologian Zwingli launches the Reformation in Switzerland, but clashes with Luther and more radical Protestants.

  27. HoP 382 - No Lord but God - the Peasants’ War and Radical Reformation

    · 24 min · Episode 382

    Faced with massive political upheaval and the rise of the Anabaptists, Luther argues for a socially conservative version of the Reformation.

  28. HoP 381 - More Lutheran than Luther - Philip Melanchthon

    · 22 min · Episode 381

    Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation.

  29. HoP 380 - Take Your Choice - Erasmus vs Luther on Free Will

    · 24 min · Episode 380

    Erasmus clashes with Martin Luther over the question whether our wills are free or enslaved to sin.

  30. HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther

    · 30 min · Episode 379

    How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts.

  31. HoP 378 - Faith, No More - Martin Luther

    · 28 min · Episode 378

    How Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and his attack on the Church relate to the history of philosophy.

  32. HoP 377 - One Way or Another - Northern Scholasticism

    · 22 min · Episode 377

    Trends in Aristotelian philosophy in northern and eastern Europe in the fifteenth century, featuring discussion of the “Wegestreit” and the nominalist theology of Gabriel Biel.

  33. HoP 376 - Books That Last Forever - Erasmus

    · 26 min · Episode 376

    The “learned piety” of Desiderius Erasmus, the greatest figure of northern humanism.

  34. HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa

    · 28 min · Episode 375

    Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.

  35. HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa

    · 28 min · Episode 374

    The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.

  36. HoP 373 - Lords of Language - Northern Humanism

    · 27 min · Episode 373

    Rudolph Agricola, Juan Luis Vives and other humanist scholars spread the study of classical antiquity across Europe and mock the technicalities of scholastic philosophy.

  37. HoP 372 - Strong, Silent Type - the Printing Press

    · 23 min · Episode 372

    The impact of the printing press on the history of philosophy, and its role in helping to trigger the Reformation.

  38. HoP 371 - European Disunion - Introduction to the Reformation

    · 26 min · Episode 371

    How humanism and scholasticism came together with the Protestant Reformation to create the philosophy of 15-16th century Europe.

  39. HoP 370 - Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance

    · 28 min · Episode 370

    For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.

  40. HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance

    · 23 min · Episode 369

    Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?

  41. HoP 368 - Boundless Enthusiasm - Giordano Bruno

    · 23 min · Episode 368

    Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.

  42. HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic

    · 35 min · Episode 367

    Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.

  43. HoP 366 - The Men Who Saw Tomorrow - Renaissance Magic and Astrology

    · 24 min · Episode 366

    Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philosophy.

  44. HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature

    · 21 min · Episode 364

    Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?

  45. HoP 364 - Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine

    · 27 min · Episode 365

    An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.

  46. HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano

    · 21 min · Episode 363

    The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.

  47. HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine

    · 20 min · Episode 362

    Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.

  48. HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art

    · 23 min · Episode 360

    The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.

  49. HoP 360 - Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance

    · 26 min · Episode 361

    An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.

  50. HoP 359 - There and Back Again - Zabarella on Scientific Method

    · 22 min · Episode 359

    Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.

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