HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
September 25th, 2022
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus
September 11th, 2022
Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
July 17th, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.
HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus
March 27th, 2022
How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?
HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy
January 2nd, 2022
An interview with Helen Hattab on the scope and impact of scholastic philosophy among Protestants.
HoP 385 - I Too Can Ask Questions - Protestant Scholasticism
December 5th, 2021
In a surprise twist, some Protestant thinkers embrace the methods of scholasticism, and even find something to admire in the work of Catholic authors like Aquinas.
HoP 377 - One Way or Another - Northern Scholasticism
July 18th, 2021
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.
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
June 20th, 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
HoP 373 - Lords of Language - Northern Humanism
May 23rd, 2021
Rudolph Agricola, Juan Luis Vives and other humanist scholars spread the study of classical antiquity across Europe and mock the technicalities of scholastic philosophy.
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.
