History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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1. HoP 308 - Dominic O'Meara on Michael Psellos

   23 Sep 2018 · 32 min · Episode 67

   Dominic O'Meara speaks to Peter about Michael Psellos, focusing especially on his political philosophy.

2. HoP 307 - Consul of the Philosophers - Michael Psellos

   9 Sep 2018 · 17 min · Episode 71

   Michael Psellos and his attitude towards pagan philosophy and the political life.

3. Bonus Episode - Glenn Adamson on Material Intelligence

   11 Aug 2018 · 31 min · Episode 69

   Peter's twin brother Glenn Adamson discusses the philosophical implications of craft.

4. HoP 306 - Collectors’ Items - Photius and Byzantine Compilations

   29 Jul 2018 · 20 min · Episode 68

   Photius, “the inventor of the book review,” and other Byzantine scholars who preserved ancient learning.

5. HoP 305 - Andrew Louth on John of Damascus

   15 Jul 2018 · 30 min · Episode 66

   Peter is joined by Andrew Louth for a discussion of John of Damascus and his theological use of philosophy.

6. HoP 304 - Behind Enemy Lines - John of Damascus

   1 Jul 2018 · 20 min · Episode 65

   John of Damascus helps to shape the Byzantine understanding of humankind and the veneration of images, despite living in Islamic territory.

7. HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm

   17 Jun 2018 · 21 min · Episode 64

   Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.

8. HoP 302 - On the Eastern Front - Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian

   3 Jun 2018 · 21 min · Episode 63

   Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian.

9. HoP 301 - The Empire Strikes Back - Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy

   20 May 2018 · 23 min · Episode 62

   We begin to look at the third tradition of medieval philosophy, in which the heritage of classical antiquity is preserved and debated by the Byzantines.

10. HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today

    6 May 2018 · 1 h 13 min · Episode 61

    Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.

11. HoP 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today

    22 Apr 2018 · 1 h 21 min · Episode 60

    Rachel Barney, Christof Rapp, and Mark Kalderon join Peter to discuss the importance of ancient philosophy for today's philosophers.

12. HoP 299 - Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism

    8 Apr 2018 · 30 min · Episode 58

    Bob Pasnau joins Peter to discuss ideas about substance from Aquinas down to the time of Locke, Leibniz and Descartes.

13. Africana Philosophy Announcement

    6 Apr 2018 · 2:17 · Episode 59

    New paperbacks and a new series!

14. HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch

    25 Mar 2018 · 22 min · Episode 57

    The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.

15. HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe

    11 Mar 2018 · 21 min · Episode 56

    New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif.

16. HoP 296 - Morning Star of the Reformation - John Wyclif

    25 Feb 2018 · 19 min · Episode 55

    John Wyclif refutes nominalism and inspires the Lollard movement, which anticipated Reformation thought with its critique of the church.

17. HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson

    11 Feb 2018 · 21 min · Episode 54

    Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the Rose initiated by Christine de Pizan.

18. HoP 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer

    28 Jan 2018 · 32 min · Episode 53

    Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech.

19. HoP 293 - The Good Wife - Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages

    14 Jan 2018 · 23 min · Episode 52

    Medieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer.

20. HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and Langland

    31 Dec 2017 · 20 min · Episode 51

    Philosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.”

21. HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism

    17 Dec 2017 · 19 min · Episode 50

    Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.

22. HoP 290 - Martin Pickavé on Emotions in Medieval Philosophy

    3 Dec 2017 · 29 min · Episode 49

    Martin Pickavé returns to the podcast to talk about theories of the emotions in Aquinas, Scotus and Wodeham.

23. HoP 289 - A Wing and a Prayer - Angels in Medieval Philosophy

    19 Nov 2017 · 21 min · Episode 48

    Be surprised by how many philosophical problems arise in connection with angels (how many can dance on the head of a pin is not one of them).

24. HoP 288 - Men in Black - The German Dominicans

    5 Nov 2017 · 20 min · Episode 47

    Dietrich of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg, John Tauler and Henry Suso explore Neoplatonism and mysticism.

25. HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart

    22 Oct 2017 · 19 min · Episode 46

    The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German.

26. HoP 286 - On the Money - Medieval Economic Theory

    8 Oct 2017 · 22 min · Episode 44

    Changing ideas about money, just price, and usury, up to the time of Buridan, Oresme, and Gregory of Rimini.

27. HoP 285 - Dominik Perler on Medieval Skepticism

    24 Sep 2017 · 29 min · Episode 45

    The medievals were too firm in their beliefs to entertain skeptical worries, right? Don't be so sure, as Peter learns from Dominik Perler.

28. HoP 284 - Seeing is Believing - Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge

    13 Aug 2017 · 22 min · Episode 43

    The debate between Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on whether it is possible to achieve certain knowledge.

29. HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan

    30 Jul 2017 · 32 min · Episode 42

    Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.

30. HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan

    16 Jul 2017 · 20 min

    The hipster’s choice for favorite scholastic, John Buridan, sets out a nominalist theory of knowledge and language, and explains the workings of free will.

31. HoP 281 - Monica Green on Medieval Medicine

    2 Jul 2017 · 37 min

    An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.

32. HoP 280 - Get to the Point - Fourteenth Century Physics

    18 Jun 2017 · 21 min

    Ockham, Buridan, Oresme and Francis of Marchia explore infinity, continuity, atomism, and the impetus involved in motion.

33. HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators

    4 Jun 2017 · 22 min

    Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.

34. HoP 278 - Sara Uckelman on Obligations

    21 May 2017 · 43 min

    Sara Uckelman soundly defeats Peter in the medieval logical game of "obligations."

35. HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic

    7 May 2017 · 20 min

    The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”

36. HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination

    23 Apr 2017 · 21 min

    Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine ask how we can be free if God knows and chooses the things we will do in the future.

37. HoP 275 - Keeping it Real - Responses to Ockham

    9 Apr 2017 · 20 min

    Walter Burley flies the flag for realism against Ockham and other nominalists.

38. HoP 274 - Susan Brower-Toland on Ockham's Philosophy of Mind

    26 Mar 2017 · 29 min

    An interview with Susan Brower-Toland covering Ockham's views on cognition, consciousness, and memory.

39. HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language

    12 Mar 2017 · 22 min

    How the language of thought relates to spoken and written language, according to William of Ockham.

40. HoP 272 - A Close Shave - Ockham’s Nominalism

    26 Feb 2017 · 21 min

    Ockham trims away the unnecessary entities posited by other scholastics.

41. HoP 271 - Do As You’re Told - Ockham on Ethics and Political Philosophy

    12 Feb 2017 · 19 min

    William of Ockham on freedom of action and freedom of thought.

42. HoP 270 - Render unto Caesar - Marsilius of Padua

    29 Jan 2017 · 22 min

    In his book Defender of the Peace, Marsilius of Padua develops new theories of representative government, rights, and ownership.

43. Democracy and the History of Philosophy

    21 Jan 2017 · 14 min

    Peter muses on recent political events in light of the history of philosophy.

44. HoP 269 - Our Power is Real - The Clash of Church and State

    15 Jan 2017 · 19 min

    Giles of Rome and Dante on the rival claims of the church and secular rulers.

45. HoP 268 - To Hell and Back - Dante Alighieri

    1 Jan 2017 · 20 min

    Italy’s greatest poet Dante Alighieri was also a philosopher, as we learn from his Convivio and of course the Divine Comedy.

46. HoP 267 - After Virtue - Marguerite Porete

    18 Dec 2016 · 20 min

    Marguerite Porete is put to death for her exploration of the love of God, The Mirror of Simple Souls.

47. HoP 266 - Tom Pink on the Will

    4 Dec 2016 · 32 min

    A conversation with Tom Pink about medieval theories of freedom and action.

48. HoP 265 - Time of the Signs - the Fourteenth Century

    20 Nov 2016 · 21 min

    An introduction to philosophy in the 14th century, focusing on two big ideas: nominalism and voluntarism.

49. HoP 264 - Giorgio Pini on Scotus on Knowledge

    6 Nov 2016 · 31 min

    Peter hears about Duns Scotus' epistemology from expert Giorgio Pini.

50. HoP 263 - One in a Million - Scotus on Universals and Individuals

    23 Oct 2016 · 24 min

    Scotus explains how things can share a nature in common while being unique individuals.