Episodes
![HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
HoP 405 - Divide and Conquer - the Spread of Ramism
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
![HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.
![HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 22, 2022
HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 08, 2022
HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
![HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
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?
![HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Saturday Mar 12, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
HoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Amidst religious conflict in the Netherlands, Dirck Coornhert pleads for religious toleration and freedom of expression.
![HoP 389 - The Acid Test - Theories of Matter](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
HoP 389 - The Acid Test - Theories of Matter
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Schegk, Taurellus, Gorlaeus, and Sennert revive atomism to explain chemical reactions, the composition of bodies, and the generation of organisms.
![HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Paracelsus adapts the tradition of alchemical science for use in medicine, and in the process overturns the scientific theories of Aristotle and Galen.
![HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
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.