Best Richard Hamlet Podcasts (2023)

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HoP 433 - Nature’s Mystery - Science in Renaissance England 19:58

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

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HoP 432 - If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art - John Dee 21:52

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

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HoP 431 - Calvin Normore on Scholasticism 29:54

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

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HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism 21:02

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

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HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature 24:48

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft 25:34

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

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HoP 427 - Brave New World - Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism 22:40

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

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HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism 20:44

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

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HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare 37:10

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

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HoP 424 - Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? - William Shakespeare 17:31

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

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HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser 24:58

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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".By Peter Adamson

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HoP 422 - The World’s Law - Richard Hooker 23:52

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

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HoP 421 - With Such Perfection Govern - English Political Thought 20:28

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More 22:07

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

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HoP 419 - Write Till Your Ink Be Dry - Humanism in Britain 22:55

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

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HoP 418 - Diarmaid MacCulloch on the British Reformations 29:39

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation 19:52

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

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HoP 416 - God’s is the Quarrel - The English Reformation 26:38

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 415 - The Tenth Muse - Marie de Gournay 18:38

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

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HoP 414 - Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism 24:14

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 413 - Don’t Be So Sure - French Skepticism 21:06

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

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HoP 412 - Not Matter, But Me - Michel de Montaigne 20:42

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

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HoP 411 - Pen Pals - Later French Humanism 17:32

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

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HoP 410 - Ann Blair on Jean Bodin’s Natural Philosophy 30:44

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

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HoP 409 - One to Rule Them All - Jean Bodin 26:12

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

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HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots 24:55

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

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HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration 30:02

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France 17:47

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 405 - Divide and Conquer - the Spread of Ramism 19:34

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

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HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus 26:43

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

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HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus 20:37

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

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Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1 45:25

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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, to get a 20% discount!By Peter Adamson

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HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France 20:10

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

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HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France 23:34

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

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HoP 400 - Philosophy Podcasters 1:00:30

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

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HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais 21:30

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

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HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre 24:14

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

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HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism 22:32

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science 35:11

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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".By Peter Adamson

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HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler 25:11

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

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HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe 22:40

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

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HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus 28:13

1+ y ago28:13

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How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?By Peter Adamson

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HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism 30:06

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

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HoP 391 - Everything is Mine and Nothing - Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism 21:19

2y ago21:19

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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.By Peter Adamson

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HoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands 26:56

2y ago26:56

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

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HoP 389 - The Acid Test - Theories of Matter 19:00

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

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HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy 22:02

2y ago22:02

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

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HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy 31:41

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

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HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa 21:25

2y ago21:25

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

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HoP 385 - I Too Can Ask Questions - Protestant Scholasticism 19:39

2y ago19:39

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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.By Peter Adamson

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