HoP 314 - Katerina Ierodiakonou on Byzantine Commentaries
A chat about commentaries on Aristotle from Byzantium with guest Katerina Ierodiakonou.
A chat about commentaries on Aristotle from Byzantium with guest Katerina Ierodiakonou.
The trial of John Italos and other signs of Byzantine disquiet with the pagan philosophical tradition.
Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian.
Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.
New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif.
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
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.
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.
Sara Uckelman soundly defeats Peter in the medieval logical game of "obligations."
The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”