Episodes
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
HoP 433 - Nature’s Mystery - Science in Renaissance England
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
How scientists of the Elizabethan age anticipated the discoveries and methods of the Enlightenment (without necessarily publishing them).
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
HoP 413 - Don’t Be So Sure - French Skepticism
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
The sources and scope of the skepticism of Montaigne, Charron, and Sanches.
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Challenges to Galenic medical orthodoxy from natural philosophy: Jean Fernel with his idea of the human’s “total substance,” and the Paracelsans.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Paracelsus adapts the tradition of alchemical science for use in medicine, and in the process overturns the scientific theories of Aristotle and Galen.
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
HoP 381 - More Lutheran than Luther - Philip Melanchthon
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation.
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
HoP 368 - Boundless Enthusiasm - Giordano Bruno
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
HoP 366 - The Men Who Saw Tomorrow - Renaissance Magic and Astrology
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philosophy.
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
HoP 364 - Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
HoP 359 - There and Back Again - Zabarella on Scientific Method
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
Sunday Jul 02, 2017
HoP 281 - Monica Green on Medieval Medicine
Sunday Jul 02, 2017
Sunday Jul 02, 2017
An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.