Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
Episode 363
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
5 years, 8 months ago
HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine
Episode 362
Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.
5 years, 9 months ago
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
Episode 360
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architect…
5 years, 9 months ago
HoP 360 - Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance
Episode 361
An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.
5 years, 10 months ago
HoP 359 - There and Back Again - Zabarella on Scientific Method
Episode 359
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
5 years, 10 months ago
HoP 358 - Of Two Minds - Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
Episode 358
Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo debate the immortality of the soul and the cogency of Averroes’ theory of intellect.
5 years, 11 months ago
HoP 357 - David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
Episode 356
An interview with David Lines on the role of Aristotle in Renaissance ethics.
5 years, 11 months ago
HoP 356 - I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum - Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
Episode 357
Aristotle’s works are edited, printed, and translated, leading to new assessments of his thought among both humanists and scholastics.
6 years ago
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
Episode 355
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
6 years ago
HoP 354 - Greed is Good - Economics in the Italian Renaissance
Episode 117
Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Poggio Bracciolini grapple with the moral and conceptual problems raised by the prospect of people get…
6 years, 2 months ago