HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and Langland
December 31st, 2017
Philosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.”
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HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart
October 22nd, 2017
The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German.
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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 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 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 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 262 - On Command - Scotus on Ethics
October 9th, 2016
Scotus argues that morality is a matter of freely choosing to follow God’s freely issued commands.
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HoP 261 - To Will or Not to Will - Scotus on Freedom
September 25th, 2016
Scotus develops a novel theory of free will and, along the way, rethinks the notions of necessity and possibility.
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HoP 257 - Martin Pickave on Henry of Ghent and Freedom
July 3rd, 2016
An interview with Martin Pickavé on voluntarism in Henry of Ghent.
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