Episodes
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
An interview with Helen Hattab on the scope and impact of scholastic philosophy among Protestants.
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa a dark magician, a pious skeptic, or both?
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
HoP 384 - We Are Not Our Own - John Calvin
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
John Calvin's views on predestination and the limits of human reason.
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
HoP 381 - More Lutheran than Luther - Philip Melanchthon
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation.
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
HoP 359 - There and Back Again - Zabarella on Scientific Method
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
HoP 358 - Of Two Minds - Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo debate the immortality of the soul and the cogency of Averroes’ theory of intellect.
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
HoP 347 - Bonfire of the Vanities - Savonarola
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own political ideas, before coming to an untimely end.
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
HoP 344 - The Count of Concord - Pico della Mirandola
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Pico della Mirandola argues for the harmony of the ancient authorities, draws on Jewish mysticism, and questions the value of humanist rhetoric.
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
HoP 342 - Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
An interview with Denis Robichaud on how, and why, Plato was read in the Italian Renaissance.
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
HoP 340 - Footnotes to Plato - Marsilio Ficino
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Marsilio Ficino’s revival of Platonism, with a focus on his proofs for the soul’s immortality in his magnum opus, the Platonic Theology.
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
HoP 336 - We Built This City - Christine de Pizan
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
Christine de Pizan's political philosophy, epistemology, and the refutation of misogyny in her "City of Ladies".
Sunday May 06, 2018
HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
Sunday May 06, 2018
Sunday May 06, 2018
Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.
Sunday Mar 25, 2018
HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
Sunday Mar 25, 2018
Sunday Mar 25, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.