Episodes
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
HoP 289 - A Wing and a Prayer - Angels in Medieval Philosophy
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Be surprised by how many philosophical problems arise in connection with angels (how many can dance on the head of a pin is not one of them).
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sunday Jul 16, 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.
Sunday May 07, 2017
HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic
Sunday May 07, 2017
Sunday May 07, 2017
The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
How the language of thought relates to spoken and written language, according to William of Ockham.