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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015
23 min
Peter Olivi proposes that awareness occurs not through passively being affected by things, but by actively paying attention to them.
Jul 19, 2015
Jul 19, 2015
22 min
Bonaventure argues that human knowledge depends on an illumination from God.
Jul 12, 2015
Jul 12, 2015
30 min
Charles Burnett tells Peter about the role of magic in medieval intellectual life.
Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015
22 min
Roger Bacon extols the power of science based on experience and uses a general theory of "species" to explain light and vision.