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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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
HoP 278 - Sara Uckelman on Obligations
Sara Uckelman soundly defeats Peter in the medieval logical game of "obligations."
8 years, 10 months ago
HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic
The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”
8 years, 10 months ago
HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination
Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine ask how we can be free if God knows and chooses the things we will do in the future.
8 years, 11 months ago
HoP 275 - Keeping it Real - Responses to Ockham
Walter Burley flies the flag for realism against Ockham and other nominalists.
8 years, 11 months ago
HoP 274 - Susan Brower-Toland on Ockham's Philosophy of Mind
An interview with Susan Brower-Toland covering Ockham's views on cognition, consciousness, and memory.
8 years, 11 months ago