Episodes
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
HoP 360 - Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
HoP 334 - Chance Encounters - Reviving Hellenistic philosophy
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
The rediscovery of Epicurus, Lucretius, and Sextus Empiricus spreads challenging ideas about chance, atomism, and skepticism.
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
HoP 322 - Do the Math - Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
Sunday Jun 18, 2017
HoP 280 - Get to the Point - Fourteenth Century Physics
Sunday Jun 18, 2017
Sunday Jun 18, 2017
Ockham, Buridan, Oresme and Francis of Marchia explore infinity, continuity, atomism, and the impetus involved in motion.
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.