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Back to SearchHoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
Episode 491
Arnauld’s attack on Malebranche’s theory of the “vision in God” leads to a nuanced debate over the nature of ideas.
5 months, 1 week ago
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
Episode 493
What inspired the occasionalist theory embraced by the 17th century Cartesians? We find out from a leading specialist on the topic.
5 months, 3 weeks ago
HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism
Episode 489
What led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” fo…
6 months ago
HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
Episode 488
We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy.
6 months, 2 weeks ago
HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
Episode 490
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes.
7 months ago
HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
Episode 487
Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.
7 months, 2 weeks ago
HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
Episode 486
An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.
8 months ago
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
Episode 485
Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?
8 months, 2 weeks ago
HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
Episode 484
Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
9 months ago
HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
Episode 483
Why did Sébastian Basso and Pierre Gassendi think ancient atomism was the key to developing a new, modern science?
9 months, 2 weeks ago