HoP 381 - More Lutheran than Luther - Philip Melanchthon
October 10th, 2021
Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation.
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 371 - European Disunion - Introduction to the Reformation
April 25th, 2021
How humanism and scholasticism came together with the Protestant Reformation to create the philosophy of 15-16th century Europe.
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 368 - Boundless Enthusiasm - Giordano Bruno
March 14th, 2021
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
February 28th, 2021
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
HoP 366 - The Men Who Saw Tomorrow - Renaissance Magic and Astrology
February 14th, 2021
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philosophy.
HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
January 31st, 2021
Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?
HoP 364 - Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine
January 17th, 2021
An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.
HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
January 3rd, 2021
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine
December 20th, 2020
Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.
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 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 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
July 12th, 2020
Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
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.
