Episodes
![HoP 450 - Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted - Philosophy and Two Renaissance Artworks](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
7 days ago
7 days ago
To celebrate reaching 450 episodes, Peter looks at the philosophical resonance of two famous artworks from the turn of the 16th century: Dürer’s Self-Portrait and Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel.
![HoP 449 - Anna Tropia on Jesuit Philosophy](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
HoP 449 - Anna Tropia on Jesuit Philosophy
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
We learn from Anna Tropia how Jesuit philosophy of mind broke new ground in the scholastic tradition.
![HoP 448 - Secondary Schools - Iberian Scholasticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
HoP 448 - Secondary Schools - Iberian Scholasticism
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”
![HoP 447 - Andrés Messmer on Spanish Protestantism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
HoP 447 - Andrés Messmer on Spanish Protestantism
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Yes, there were Spanish Protestants! Andrew (Andrés) Messmer joins us to explain how they drew on humanism and philosophy to argue for their religious agenda.
![HoP 446 - Not Doubting Thomas - the Aquinas Revival](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 26, 2024
HoP 446 - Not Doubting Thomas - the Aquinas Revival
Sunday May 26, 2024
Sunday May 26, 2024
Cajetan, Bañez and other thinkers make Aquinas a central figure of Counter-Reformation thought; we focus on their theories about analogy and the soul.
![HoP 445 - Band of Brothers - the Jesuits](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 12, 2024
HoP 445 - Band of Brothers - the Jesuits
Sunday May 12, 2024
Sunday May 12, 2024
Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy.
![HoP 442 - Scott Williams on Disability and the New World](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
HoP 442 - Scott Williams on Disability and the New World
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
In this interview we learn about the main issues in modern-day philosophy of disability, and the relevance of this topic for the European encounter with the Americas.
![HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
![HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Iberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia becomes an encounter between European and Chinese philosophy.
![HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
How religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century.
![HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results!
![HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Our last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of magic and Rosicrucianism.
![HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
The cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism and electricity at the turn of the 17th century.
![HoP 434 - The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection - Theories of Vision](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
HoP 434 - The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection - Theories of Vision
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Changing ideas about eyesight, light, mirror images, and refraction – and the skeptical worries they may have inspired.
![HoP 433 - Nature’s Mystery - Science in Renaissance England](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
HoP 433 - Nature’s Mystery - Science in Renaissance England
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
How scientists of the Elizabethan age anticipated the discoveries and methods of the Enlightenment (without necessarily publishing them).
![HoP 432 - If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art - John Dee](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
HoP 432 - If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art - John Dee
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Science, intrigue, exploration, angelic seances! It's the life and thought of Elizabethan mathematician and magician John Dee.
![HoP 431 - Calvin Normore on Scholasticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
HoP 431 - Calvin Normore on Scholasticism
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
A discussion of the history and philosophical significance of scholasticism from medieval times to early modernity, and even today.
![HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
The evolution of Aristotelian philosophy from John Mair in the late 15th century to John Case in the late 16th century.
![HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne Lock.
![HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
How Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.