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Back to SearchS1 E13: Logic and Language
Season 1 Episode 13
In this episode, Mark and Adam discuss medieval takes on language and its relation to logic. While Mark would rather talk about dinosaurs, his hatred…
4 years, 10 months ago
S1 E12: The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance
Season 1 Episode 12
Follow us on Twitter @UlmtdOpinions! In this episode, Mark and Adam tackle the massive second half of Medieval Philosophy. They look at the many scho…
4 years, 11 months ago
S1 E11: Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides
Season 1 Episode 11
Adam and Mark move on to medieval philosophy! Beginning with the second half of St. Augustine's life, through Boethius and the great early Muslim and…
4 years, 11 months ago
S1 E10: God
Season 1 Episode 10
Polytheism, monotheism, and trinities, oh my! In this episode, Mark and Adam look at the evolution of Ancient theology as philosophers move away from…
4 years, 11 months ago
S1 E9: How to Live: Ethics
Season 1 Episode 9
Mark and Adam continue with Chapter 8 of Anthony Kenny's History of Western Philosophy, which is all about ancient ethics. From the first moralist De…
4 years, 11 months ago
S1 E8: Soul and Mind
Season 1 Episode 8
Mark is convinced of Adam's beliefs on God's knowledge and humanity's free will! Well, part of it, anyway. And Adam doesn't convince him. St. Augusti…
5 years ago
S1 E7: What There Is: Metaphysics
Season 1 Episode 7
Mark and Adam discuss different ancient views on metaphysics, from Parmenides to Plato to the Stoics. Metaphysics, or the study of Being, can be clou…
5 years ago
S1 E6: How Things Happen: Physics
Season 1 Episode 6
The God discussion continues! In this episode, Mark and Adam look at Aristotle's views on Physics and the Stoic look at causality and determinism. Th…
5 years ago
S1 E5: Knowledge and Its Limits: Epistemology
Season 1 Episode 5
In this episode, Mark and Adam discuss epistemology, or the inquiry into what is knowledge and what is knowable. From pre-Socratic epistemology to Pl…
5 years ago
S1 E4: How to Argue: Logic
Season 1 Episode 4
In this episode, Mark and Adam loosely discuss the fourth chapter of Anthony Kenney's "A New History of Western Philosophy." Centered around both the…
5 years, 1 month ago