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Trends in Aristotelian philosophy in northern and eastern Europe in the fifteenth century, featuring discussion of the “Wegestreit” and the nominalist theology of Gabriel Biel.
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
Rudolph Agricola, Juan Luis Vives and other humanist scholars spread the study of classical antiquity across Europe and mock the technicalities of scholastic philosophy.
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
Aristotle’s works are edited, printed, and translated, leading to new assessments of his thought among both humanists and scholastics.
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
Intellectual exchange between Christians and Muslims, and the later flowering of Syriac literature including the philosopher Bar Hebraeus.
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.”
