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 281 - Monica Green on Medieval Medicine
July 2nd, 2017
An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.
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HoP 280 - Get to the Point - Fourteenth Century Physics
June 18th, 2017
Ockham, Buridan, Oresme and Francis of Marchia explore infinity, continuity, atomism, and the impetus involved in motion.
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HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators
June 4th, 2017
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.
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HoP 278 - Sara Uckelman on Obligations
May 21st, 2017
Sara Uckelman soundly defeats Peter in the medieval logical game of "obligations."
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HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic
May 7th, 2017
The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”
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HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination
April 23rd, 2017
Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine ask how we can be free if God knows and chooses the things we will do in the future.
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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 272 - A Close Shave - Ockham’s Nominalism
February 26th, 2017
Ockham trims away the unnecessary entities posited by other scholastics.
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HoP 271 - Do As You’re Told - Ockham on Ethics and Political Philosophy
February 12th, 2017
William of Ockham on freedom of action and freedom of thought.
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HoP 270 - Render unto Caesar - Marsilius of Padua
January 29th, 2017
In his book Defender of the Peace, Marsilius of Padua develops new theories of representative government, rights, and ownership.
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Democracy and the History of Philosophy
January 21st, 2017
Peter muses on recent political events in light of the history of philosophy.
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HoP 269 - Our Power is Real - The Clash of Church and State
January 15th, 2017
Giles of Rome and Dante on the rival claims of the church and secular rulers.
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HoP 268 - To Hell and Back - Dante Alighieri
January 1st, 2017
Italy’s greatest poet Dante Alighieri was also a philosopher, as we learn from his Convivio and of course the Divine Comedy.
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HoP 267 - After Virtue - Marguerite Porete
December 18th, 2016
Marguerite Porete is put to death for her exploration of the love of God, The Mirror of Simple Souls.
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HoP 266 - Tom Pink on the Will
December 4th, 2016
A conversation with Tom Pink about medieval theories of freedom and action.
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HoP 265 - Time of the Signs - the Fourteenth Century
November 20th, 2016
An introduction to philosophy in the 14th century, focusing on two big ideas: nominalism and voluntarism.
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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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