HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
March 28th, 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
HoP 359 - There and Back Again - Zabarella on Scientific Method
November 8th, 2020
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
HoP 356 - I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum - Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
September 27th, 2020
Aristotle’s works are edited, printed, and translated, leading to new assessments of his thought among both humanists and scholastics.
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
September 13th, 2020
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
HoP 320 - People of the South - Byzantium and Islam
March 10th, 2019
Intellectual exchange between Christians and Muslims, and the later flowering of Syriac literature including the philosopher Bar Hebraeus.
HoP 314 - Katerina Ierodiakonou on Byzantine Commentaries
December 16th, 2018
A chat about commentaries on Aristotle from Byzantium with guest Katerina Ierodiakonou.
HoP 309 - Hooked on Classics - Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning
October 7th, 2018
The trial of John Italos and other signs of Byzantine disquiet with the pagan philosophical tradition.
HoP 302 - On the Eastern Front - Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
June 3rd, 2018
Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian.
HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
May 6th, 2018
Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.
HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe
March 11th, 2018
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.
HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan
July 30th, 2017
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan
July 16th, 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.
HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators
June 4th, 2017
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.
HoP 278 - Sara Uckelman on Obligations
May 21st, 2017
Sara Uckelman soundly defeats Peter in the medieval logical game of "obligations."
HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic
May 7th, 2017
The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”
