Episodes
![HoP 416 - God’s is the Quarrel - The English Reformation](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
HoP 416 - God’s is the Quarrel - The English Reformation
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
The historical context of English philosophy in the sixteenth century, with particular focus on Thomas Cranmer, and the role of religion in personal conscience and social cohesion.
![HoP 414 - Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
HoP 414 - Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
No doubt that we're in good hands with interview guest Henrik Lagerlund, who brings his expertise in the history of skepticism to bear on the French Renaissance.
![HoP 413 - Don’t Be So Sure - French Skepticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
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.
![HoP 412 - Not Matter, But Me - Michel de Montaigne](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
HoP 412 - Not Matter, But Me - Michel de Montaigne
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
In his “Essays” Montaigne uses his wit, insight, and humanist training to tackle his favorite subject: Montaigne.
![HoP 411 - Pen Pals - Later French Humanism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
HoP 411 - Pen Pals - Later French Humanism
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Guillaume du Vair grapple with history and the events of their own day.
![HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Protestant French thinkers like François Hotman and Theodore Beza propose a radical political philosophy: the king rules at the pleasure of his subjects.
![HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Locke and Leibniz.
![HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian Castellio.
![Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Notre Dame Press. Pre-order with the code 14FF20 from undpress.nd.edu, to get a 20% discount!
![HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
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.
![HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
In his outrageous novel about Pantagruel and Gargantua, Rabelais engages with scholasticism, humanism, medicine, the reformation, and the querelle des femmes.
![HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
A Renaissance queen supports philosophical humanism and produces literary works on spirituality, love, and the soul.
![HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 08, 2022
HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extraordinary events they called "wonders".
![HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
![HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
John Sellars returns to the podcast to discuss Lipsius' work on Seneca and the early modern Neo-Stoic movement.
![HoP 391 - Everything is Mine and Nothing - Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Justus Lipsius draws on Seneca and other Stoics to counsel peace of mind in the face of political chaos, but also writes a work on how such chaos can be avoided.
![HoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
HoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Amidst religious conflict in the Netherlands, Dirck Coornhert pleads for religious toleration and freedom of expression.
![HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
An interview with Helen Hattab on the scope and impact of scholastic philosophy among Protestants.
![HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa a dark magician, a pious skeptic, or both?
![HoP 385 - I Too Can Ask Questions - Protestant Scholasticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
HoP 385 - I Too Can Ask Questions - Protestant Scholasticism
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 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.