HoP 360 - Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance
November 22nd, 2020
An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
September 13th, 2020
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
HoP 334 - Chance Encounters - Reviving Hellenistic philosophy
October 20th, 2019
The rediscovery of Epicurus, Lucretius, and Sextus Empiricus spreads challenging ideas about chance, atomism, and skepticism.
HoP 322 - Do the Math - Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
April 7th, 2019
Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.
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 280 - Get to the Point - Fourteenth Century Physics
June 18th, 2017
Ockham, Buridan, Oresme and Francis of Marchia explore infinity, continuity, atomism, and the impetus involved in motion.
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.
