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HoP 288 - Men in Black - The German Dominicans
Episode 47
Dietrich of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg, John Tauler and Henry Suso explore Neoplatonism and mysticism.
8 years, 2 months ago
HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart
Episode 46
The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German.
8 years, 2 months ago
HoP 286 - On the Money - Medieval Economic Theory
Episode 44
Changing ideas about money, just price, and usury, up to the time of Buridan, Oresme, and Gregory of Rimini.
8 years, 3 months ago
HoP 285 - Dominik Perler on Medieval Skepticism
Episode 45
The medievals were too firm in their beliefs to entertain skeptical worries, right? Don't be so sure, as Peter learns from Dominik Perler.
8 years, 3 months ago
HoP 284 - Seeing is Believing - Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge
Episode 43
The debate between Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on whether it is possible to achieve certain knowledge.
8 years, 5 months ago
HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan
Episode 42
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
8 years, 5 months ago
HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan
The hipster’s choice for favorite scholastic, John Buridan, sets out a nominalist theory of knowledge and language, and explains the workings of free…
8 years, 5 months ago
HoP 281 - Monica Green on Medieval Medicine
An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.
8 years, 6 months ago
HoP 280 - Get to the Point - Fourteenth Century Physics
Ockham, Buridan, Oresme and Francis of Marchia explore infinity, continuity, atomism, and the impetus involved in motion.
8 years, 6 months ago
HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.
8 years, 7 months ago