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Back to SearchHoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition
Episode 440
How religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century.
2 years, 1 month ago
HoP 438 - Don't Give Up Pope - Catholic Reformation
Episode 439
How the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation created a context for philosophy among Catholics, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
2 years, 1 month ago
HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy
Episode 438
An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results!
2 years, 2 months ago
HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd
Episode 437
Our last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of …
2 years, 2 months ago
HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism
Episode 436
The cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism and electricity at the turn of the 17th century.
2 years, 2 months ago
HoP 434 - The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection - Theories of Vision
Episode 434
Changing ideas about eyesight, light, mirror images, and refraction – and the skeptical worries they may have inspired.
2 years, 3 months ago
HoP 433 - Nature’s Mystery - Science in Renaissance England
Episode 433
How scientists of the Elizabethan age anticipated the discoveries and methods of the Enlightenment (without necessarily publishing them).
2 years, 3 months ago
HoP 432 - If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art - John Dee
Episode 432
Science, intrigue, exploration, angelic seances! It's the life and thought of Elizabethan mathematician and magician John Dee.
2 years, 4 months ago
HoP 431 - Calvin Normore on Scholasticism
Episode 435
A discussion of the history and philosophical significance of scholasticism from medieval times to early modernity, and even today.
2 years, 4 months ago
HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism
Episode 431
The evolution of Aristotelian philosophy from John Mair in the late 15th century to John Case in the late 16th century.
2 years, 5 months ago