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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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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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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 468 Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method 29:29
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How Descartes fashioned a “method” to repel even the strongest and most radical forms of doubt, with the cogito argument as its foundation.
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1 HoP 467 Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics 27:32
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For Descartes body is purely geometrical. So how does he understand features we can perceive, like color, and causation between bodies?
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1 HoP 466 Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works 20:13
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How René Descartes’ understanding of his own intellectual project evolved across his lifetime.
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1 HoP 465 Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century 27:02
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A look at the political and religious ferment that made up the historical context of philosophy in 17th century France and the Netherlands.
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1 HoP 464 Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters 42:13
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In this interview we learn more about the Republic of Letters: its importance for the history of ideas, it geographic breadth, who was involved, and the contributions of figures including Leibniz and Hartlib.
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1 HoP 463 Doctors without Borders: the Republic of Letters 23:36
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How scholars around Europe created an international network of intellectual exchange. As examples we consider the activities of Mersenne, Peiresc, Leibniz, Calvet, and Hartlib.
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1 HoP 462 Freedom to Philosophize: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy 36:34
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What is Enlightenment, anyway?
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1 HoP 461 - Eileen Reeves on Galileo and the Telescope 43:04
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We finish our look at philosophy in the Reformation era with an interview about Galileo's use of a revolutionary technology: the telescope.
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1 HoP 460 - Trial and Error - Galileo and the Inquisition 18:59
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The philosophical issues at the heart of the notorious condemnation of Galileo and Copernican astronomy.
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1 HoP 459 - Cardinal Rule - Robert Bellarmine 19:36
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Though most famous for his role in persecuting Galileo, Robert Bellarmine was a central figure of the Counter-Reformation, especially in his political thought.
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1 HoP 458 - Outsider Philosophy - The Cheese and the Worms 22:15
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Carlo Ginzburg’s innovative historical study The Cheese and the Worms looks at the ideas of an obscure 16th century miller, suggesting how popular culture might be integrated into the history of philosophy.
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1 HoP 457 - Take Your Medicine - Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani 19:53
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Natural philosophy and medicine in the work of two unorthodox thinkers of the late sixteenth century, both of them women.
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1 HoP 456 - Touch Me With Your Madness - Cervantes’ Don Quixote 25:39
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Why do critics consider Don Quixote the first “modern” novel, and what does it tell us about the aesthetics of fiction?
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We're joined by Tom Pink, who tells us about Suárez on ethics, law, religion, and the state.
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1 HoP 454 - By Appointment Only - Political Philosophy in the Second Scholastic 16:58
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Suárez and other Iberian scholastics ask where political power comes from and under what circumstances it is exercised legitimately.
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