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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015
22 min
An introduction to Thomas Aquinas, his views on faith and reason, and his famous “five ways” of proving God’s existence.
Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015
33 min
Therese Cory tells Peter what Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas thought about self-awareness.
Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015
18 min
Albert the Great’s theory of being and his attempt to explain what changes in the human mind when we come to see God in the afterlife.
Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015
20 min
Albert the Great earns his nickname “universal doctor” by devoting himself to the whole of nature, from geology and botany to the study of human nature.
Oct 25, 2015
Oct 25, 2015
33 min
Was medieval logic "formal"? Peter finds out from Catarina Dutilh Novaes.
Oct 11, 2015
Oct 11, 2015
21 min
Robert Kilwardby is infamous for his ban on teaching certain philosophical ideas at Oxford, yet made contributions in logic and on the soul.
Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015
21 min
Two Beguine authors, Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg, deploy the tropes of courtly love in vernacular writings about their mystical experiences.
Sep 19, 2015
Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015
21 min
Bonaventure and Peter Olivi respond to critics of the Franciscan vow of poverty, in a debate which produced new ideas about economics and rights.
Aug 2, 2015
Aug 2, 2015
24 min
Medieval ideas about what animals do and do not have in common with humans, and how we should treat them.
Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015
23 min
Peter Olivi proposes that awareness occurs not through passively being affected by things, but by actively paying attention to them.
Jul 19, 2015
Jul 19, 2015
22 min
Bonaventure argues that human knowledge depends on an illumination from God.
Jul 12, 2015
Jul 12, 2015
30 min
Charles Burnett tells Peter about the role of magic in medieval intellectual life.
Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015
22 min
Roger Bacon extols the power of science based on experience and uses a general theory of "species" to explain light and vision.
Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015
19 min
Translator, scientist and theologian Robert Grosseteste sheds light on the cosmos, human understanding, and the rainbow.
Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015
19 min
The scholastics explore Aristotle’s ethical teaching and the concept of moral conscience.
Jun 14, 2015
Jun 14, 2015
23 min
Philip the Chancellor introduces the transcendentals, a key idea in medieval metaphysics and aesthetics.
Jun 7, 2015
Jun 7, 2015
21 min
John Blund and William of Auvergne draw on Aristotle and Avicenna to argue that the soul is immaterial and immortal.
May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015
22 min
Richard Rufus and anonymous commentators on Aristotle explore the nature of motion, time, infinity and space.
May 24, 2015
May 24, 2015
23 min
The terminist logicians William of Sherwood and Peter of Spain classify the various ways that language can relate to the world.