Podcast Episodes

HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World

Episode 442

Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit th…

2 years, 6 months ago

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HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science

Episode 441

Iberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia becomes an encounter between European and Chines…

2 years, 6 months ago

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HoP 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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 8 months ago

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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, 8 months ago

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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, 9 months ago

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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, 9 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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