Episodes

Sunday Jun 12, 2011
HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method
Sunday Jun 12, 2011
Sunday Jun 12, 2011
Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge

Tuesday Jun 07, 2011
HoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle's Epistemology
Tuesday Jun 07, 2011
Tuesday Jun 07, 2011
Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

Monday May 30, 2011
HoP 035 - The Philosopher's Toolkit - Aristotle's Logical Works
Monday May 30, 2011
Monday May 30, 2011
Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon (especially Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics)

Monday May 23, 2011
HoP 034 - Mr. Know It All - Aristotle's Life And Works
Monday May 23, 2011
Monday May 23, 2011
Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence

Monday May 16, 2011
HoP 033 - Last Judgments - Plato, Poetry and Myth
Monday May 16, 2011
Monday May 16, 2011
Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues

Monday May 09, 2011
HoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love
Monday May 09, 2011
Monday May 09, 2011
Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium

Monday May 02, 2011
HoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato's Erotic Dialogues
Monday May 02, 2011
Monday May 02, 2011
Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis

Monday Apr 25, 2011
HoP 030 - A Likely Story - Plato's Timaeus
Monday Apr 25, 2011
Monday Apr 25, 2011
A divine craftsman makes the cosmos from triangles in Plato's Timaeus

Monday Apr 18, 2011
HoP 029 - What's in a Name? - Plato's Cratylus
Monday Apr 18, 2011
Monday Apr 18, 2011
Philosophy of language and Heraclitean flux in Plato's Cratylus

Monday Apr 11, 2011
HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist
Monday Apr 11, 2011
Monday Apr 11, 2011
Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist

Monday Apr 04, 2011
HoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
Monday Apr 04, 2011
Monday Apr 04, 2011
The Third Man Argument and other criticisms of Forms in the Parmenides

Monday Mar 28, 2011
HoP 026 - Ain't No Sunshine - The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic
Monday Mar 28, 2011
Monday Mar 28, 2011
The Divided Line, Form of the Good, and Cave in Plato's Republic

Sunday Mar 20, 2011
HoP 025 - Soul and The City - Plato's Political Philosophy
Sunday Mar 20, 2011
Sunday Mar 20, 2011
Plato's Republic defends and defines justice at the level of the ideal city and the person

Monday Mar 14, 2011
HoP 024 - Famous Last Words - Plato's Phaedo
Monday Mar 14, 2011
Monday Mar 14, 2011
Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo

Monday Mar 07, 2011
HoP 023 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato
Monday Mar 07, 2011
Monday Mar 07, 2011
MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato

Monday Feb 28, 2011
HoP 022 - I Know Because The Caged Bird Sings - Plato's Theaetetus
Monday Feb 28, 2011
Monday Feb 28, 2011
Knowledge, relativism, and memory in the Theaetetus

Monday Feb 21, 2011
HoP 021 - We Don't Need No Education - Plato's Meno
Monday Feb 21, 2011
Monday Feb 21, 2011
The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection

Monday Feb 14, 2011
HoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias
Monday Feb 14, 2011
Monday Feb 14, 2011
Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece.

Monday Feb 07, 2011
HoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
Monday Feb 07, 2011
Monday Feb 07, 2011
Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus

Monday Jan 31, 2011
HoP 018 - In Dialogue - The Life And Writings Of Plato
Monday Jan 31, 2011
Monday Jan 31, 2011
The life, times and dialogues of Plato