Podcast Episodes

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

Episode 405

Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Not…

4 years, 1 month ago

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HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France

Episode 402

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

4 years, 2 months ago

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HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France

Episode 401

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

4 years, 2 months ago

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HoP 400 - Philosophy Podcasters

Episode 400

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

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 3 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.

4 years, 3 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…

4 years, 4 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…

4 years, 4 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.

4 years, 5 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.

4 years, 5 months ago

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