History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
449 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsPeter 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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HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World
March 17, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutes - 47.9 MBBartholomé 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.
HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science
March 03, 2024 04:00 - 17 minutes - 40.1 MBIberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia becomes an encounter between European and Chinese philosophy.
HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition
February 18, 2024 04:00 - 24 minutes - 55.2 MBHow religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century.
HoP 438 - Don't Give Up Pope - Catholic Reformation
February 04, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 42.2 MBHow the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation created a context for philosophy among Catholics, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy
January 21, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutes - 80.1 MBAn expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results!
HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd
January 07, 2024 04:00 - 19 minutes - 44.7 MBOur last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of magic and Rosicrucianism.
HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism
December 24, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes - 41 MBThe cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism and electricity at the turn of the 17th century.
HoP 434 - The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection - Theories of Vision
December 10, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutes - 45.8 MBChanging ideas about eyesight, light, mirror images, and refraction – and the skeptical worries they may have inspired.
HoP 433 - Nature’s Mystery - Science in Renaissance England
November 26, 2023 04:00 - 19 minutes - 45.7 MBHow scientists of the Elizabethan age anticipated the discoveries and methods of the Enlightenment (without necessarily publishing them).
HoP 432 - If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art - John Dee
November 12, 2023 04:00 - 21 minutes - 50.1 MBScience, intrigue, exploration, angelic seances! It's the life and thought of Elizabethan mathematician and magician John Dee.
HoP 431 - Calvin Normore on Scholasticism
October 29, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 68.5 MBA discussion of the history and philosophical significance of scholasticism from medieval times to early modernity, and even today.
HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism
October 15, 2023 04:00 - 21 minutes - 48.2 MBThe evolution of Aristotelian philosophy from John Mair in the late 15th century to John Case in the late 16th century.
HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature
October 01, 2023 04:00 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MBHow 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.
HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft
September 17, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes - 58.6 MBHow Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.
HoP 427 - Brave New World - Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism
September 03, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes - 51.9 MBCan Shakespeare’s Tempest be read as a reflection on the English encounter with the peoples of the Americas?
HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism
July 23, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutes - 47.5 MBHow the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play.
HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
July 09, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 85.1 MBWe're joined by Patrick Gray to discuss Shakespeare's knowledge of philosophy, his ethics, and his influence on such thinkers as Hegel.
HoP 424 - Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? - William Shakespeare
June 25, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes - 40.1 MBHow should we approach Shakespeare’s plays as philosophical texts? We take as examples skepticism and politics in Othello, King Lear, and Julius Caesar.
HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
June 11, 2023 04:00 - 24 minutes - 57.2 MBWe 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".
HoP 422 - The World’s Law - Richard Hooker
May 28, 2023 04:00 - 23 minutes - 54.7 MBRichard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.
HoP 421 - With Such Perfection Govern - English Political Thought
May 14, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutes - 46.9 MBThe 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.
HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More
May 07, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes - 50.7 MBWhat is the message of the famous, but elusive, work "Utopia", and how can it be squared with the life of its author?
HoP 419 - Write Till Your Ink Be Dry - Humanism in Britain
April 23, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes - 52.5 MBHumanism comes to England and Scotland, leading scholars like Thomas Eylot and Andrew Melville to rethink philosophical education.
HoP 418 - Diarmaid MacCulloch on the British Reformations
April 09, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 67.9 MBA leading expert on the history of the Reformation joins us to explain the very different stories of England and Scotland in the 16th century.
HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation
March 26, 2023 04:00 - 19 minutes - 22.8 MBJohn Knox polemicizes against idolaters and female rulers, while the humanist George Buchanan argues more calmly for equally radical political conclusions.
HoP 416 - God’s is the Quarrel - The English Reformation
March 12, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 30.5 MBThe 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.
HoP 415 - The Tenth Muse - Marie de Gournay
February 26, 2023 04:00 - 18 minutes - 42.7 MBMarie le Jars de Gourney, the “adoptive daughter” of Montaigne, lays claim to his legacy and argues for the equality of the sexes.
HoP 414 - Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism
February 12, 2023 04:00 - 24 minutes - 55.5 MBNo 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.
HoP 413 - Don’t Be So Sure - French Skepticism
January 29, 2023 04:00 - 21 minutes - 48.3 MBThe sources and scope of the skepticism of Montaigne, Charron, and Sanches.
HoP 412 - Not Matter, But Me - Michel de Montaigne
January 15, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutes - 47.4 MBIn his “Essays” Montaigne uses his wit, insight, and humanist training to tackle his favorite subject: Montaigne.
HoP 411 - Pen Pals - Later French Humanism
January 01, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes - 40.2 MBJoseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Guillaume du Vair grapple with history and the events of their own day.
HoP 410 - Ann Blair on Jean Bodin’s Natural Philosophy
December 18, 2022 04:00 - 30 minutes - 35.2 MBA chat with Ann Blair about the "Theater of Nature" by Jean Bodin, and other encyclopedic works of natural philosophy.
HoP 409 - One to Rule Them All - Jean Bodin
December 04, 2022 04:00 - 26 minutes - 60 MBThe polymath Jean Bodin produces a pioneering theory of political sovereignty along the way to defending the absolute power of the French king.
HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots
November 20, 2022 05:00 - 24 minutes - 57.1 MBProtestant French thinkers like François Hotman and Theodore Beza propose a radical political philosophy: the king rules at the pleasure of his subjects.
HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration
November 06, 2022 04:00 - 30 minutes - 68.8 MBAn 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.
HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France
October 23, 2022 04:00 - 17 minutes - 40.8 MBEven as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian Castellio.
HoP 405 - Divide and Conquer - the Spread of Ramism
October 09, 2022 04:00 - 19 minutes - 44.8 MBThe methods of Peter Ramus sweep across Europe, winning adherents and facing stiff opposition in equal measure.
HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
September 25, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes - 61.2 MBA chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus
September 11, 2022 04:00 - 20 minutes - 47.2 MBPeter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.
Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1
August 14, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBPeter 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, to get a 20% discount!
HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France
July 31, 2022 04:00 - 20 minutes - 46.2 MBChallenges to Galenic medical orthodoxy from natural philosophy: Jean Fernel with his idea of the human’s “total substance,” and the Paracelsans.
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
July 17, 2022 04:00 - 23 minutes - 54 MBJacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.
HoP 400 - Philosophy Podcasters
July 03, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBPeter chats with the hosts of three great philosophy podcasts: Elucidations, Hi-Phi Nation, and the Unmute Podcast.
HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais
June 19, 2022 04:00 - 21 minutes - 49.2 MBIn his outrageous novel about Pantagruel and Gargantua, Rabelais engages with scholasticism, humanism, medicine, the reformation, and the querelle des femmes.
HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre
June 05, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 55.5 MBA Renaissance queen supports philosophical humanism and produces literary works on spirituality, love, and the soul.
HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism
May 22, 2022 04:00 - 22 minutes - 51.6 MBWe 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.
HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science
May 08, 2022 04:00 - 35 minutes - 80.6 MBComets! 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".
HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
April 24, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 57.7 MBJohannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe
April 10, 2022 04:00 - 22 minutes - 51.9 MBResponses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho Brahe.
HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus
March 27, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 64.6 MBHow revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?