Episodes
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?
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 Jul 18, 2021
HoP 377 - One Way or Another - Northern Scholasticism
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 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.
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
HoP 371 - European Disunion - Introduction to the Reformation
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
How humanism and scholasticism came together with the Protestant Reformation to create the philosophy of 15-16th century Europe.
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
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 31, 2021
HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?
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 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 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 Sep 27, 2020
HoP 356 - I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum - Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Aristotle’s works are edited, printed, and translated, leading to new assessments of his thought among both humanists and scholastics.
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 Jul 12, 2020
HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 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.
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.