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Back to SearchHoP 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 months ago
HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature
Episode 430
How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne L…
2 years, 3 months ago
HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft
Episode 429
How Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.
2 years, 3 months ago
HoP 427 - Brave New World - Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism
Episode 428
Can Shakespeare’s Tempest be read as a reflection on the English encounter with the peoples of the Americas?
2 years, 4 months ago
HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism
Episode 427
How the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play.
2 years, 5 months ago
HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
Episode 426
We're joined by Patrick Gray to discuss Shakespeare's knowledge of philosophy, his ethics, and his influence on such thinkers as Hegel.
2 years, 6 months ago