HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
May 6th, 2018
Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.
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HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
March 25th, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
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HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism
December 17th, 2017
Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.
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HoP 285 - Dominik Perler on Medieval Skepticism
September 24th, 2017
The medievals were too firm in their beliefs to entertain skeptical worries, right? Don't be so sure, as Peter learns from Dominik Perler.
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HoP 284 - Seeing is Believing - Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge
August 13th, 2017
The debate between Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on whether it is possible to achieve certain knowledge.
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HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan
July 30th, 2017
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
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HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan
July 16th, 2017
The hipster’s choice for favorite scholastic, John Buridan, sets out a nominalist theory of knowledge and language, and explains the workings of free will.
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HoP 275 - Keeping it Real - Responses to Ockham
April 9th, 2017
Walter Burley flies the flag for realism against Ockham and other nominalists.
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HoP 274 - Susan Brower-Toland on Ockham’s Philosophy of Mind
March 26th, 2017
An interview with Susan Brower-Toland covering Ockham's views on cognition, consciousness, and memory.
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HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language
March 12th, 2017
How the language of thought relates to spoken and written language, according to William of Ockham.
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HoP 264 - Giorgio Pini on Scotus on Knowledge
November 6th, 2016
Peter hears about Duns Scotus' epistemology from expert Giorgio Pini.
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HoP 131 - Deborah Black on al-Farabi’s Epistemology
June 2nd, 2013
Deborah Black joins Peter to talk about al-Farabi's innovations concerning knowledge and certainty.
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