HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots
November 20th, 2022
Protestant French thinkers like François Hotman and Theodore Beza propose a radical political philosophy: the king rules at the pleasure of his subjects.
HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration
November 6th, 2022
An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Locke and Leibniz.
HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France
October 23rd, 2022
Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian Castellio.
HoP 405 - Divide and Conquer - the Spread of Ramism
October 9th, 2022
The methods of Peter Ramus sweep across Europe, winning adherents and facing stiff opposition in equal measure.
HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
September 25th, 2022
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus
September 11th, 2022
Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.
Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1
August 14th, 2022
Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Notre Dame Press. Pre-order with the code 14FF20 from undpress.nd.edu, to get a 20% discount!
HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France
July 31st, 2022
Challenges to Galenic medical orthodoxy from natural philosophy: Jean Fernel with his idea of the human’s “total substance,” and the Paracelsans.
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
July 17th, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.
HoP 400 - Philosophy Podcasters
July 3rd, 2022
Peter chats with the hosts of three great philosophy podcasts: Elucidations, Hi-Phi Nation, and the Unmute Podcast.
HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais
June 19th, 2022
In his outrageous novel about Pantagruel and Gargantua, Rabelais engages with scholasticism, humanism, medicine, the reformation, and the querelle des femmes.
HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre
June 5th, 2022
A Renaissance queen supports philosophical humanism and produces literary works on spirituality, love, and the soul.
HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism
May 22nd, 2022
We begin to look at philosophy in Renaissance France, beginning with humanists like Budé and the use of classical philosophy by poets du Bellay and Ronsard.
HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science
May 8th, 2022
Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extraordinary events they called "wonders".
HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
April 24th, 2022
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe
April 10th, 2022
Responses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho Brahe.
HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus
March 27th, 2022
How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?
HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism
March 12th, 2022
John Sellars returns to the podcast to discuss Lipsius' work on Seneca and the early modern Neo-Stoic movement.
HoP 391 - Everything is Mine and Nothing - Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism
February 27th, 2022
Justus Lipsius draws on Seneca and other Stoics to counsel peace of mind in the face of political chaos, but also writes a work on how such chaos can be avoided.
HoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands
February 13th, 2022
Amidst religious conflict in the Netherlands, Dirck Coornhert pleads for religious toleration and freedom of expression.
