History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras

Is everything mixed with everything? Anaxagoras on Mind and the cosmos

HoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus

Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides

HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus

Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy

HoP 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides

The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea

HoP 006 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus

MM McCabe of King's discusses the fragments of Heraclitus

HoP 005 - Old Man River - Heraclitus

Everything changes in the riddling philosophy of Heraclitus

HoP 004 - The Man With The Golden Thigh - Pythagoras

Pythagoras and mathematics in ancient philosophy

HoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion

The gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the critique of Xenophanes

HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximenes

Two early Pre-Socratics claim that the world is made of air, and the infinite

HoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thales

In this first episode, Peter discusses the goals of the series and Thales, the first Greek philosopher.