Podcast Episodes

HoP 400 - Philosophy Podcasters

Episode 400

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

3 years, 8 months ago

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HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais

Episode 399

In his outrageous novel about Pantagruel and Gargantua, Rabelais engages with scholasticism, humanism, medicine, the reformation, and the querelle de…

3 years, 9 months ago

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HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre

Episode 398

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

3 years, 9 months ago

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HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism

Episode 397

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 R…

3 years, 10 months ago

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HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

Episode 394

Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extra…

3 years, 10 months ago

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HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler

Episode 396

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

3 years, 10 months ago

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HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe

Episode 395

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

3 years, 11 months ago

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

Episode 393

How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?

3 years, 11 months ago

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HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism

Episode 392

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

4 years ago

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

Episode 391

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…

4 years ago

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