Episodes

Monday Jan 24, 2011
HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates
Monday Jan 24, 2011
Monday Jan 24, 2011
Raphael Woolf discusses Socrates as presented by Plato

Monday Jan 17, 2011
HoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates
Monday Jan 17, 2011
Monday Jan 17, 2011
Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly

Monday Jan 10, 2011
Monday Jan 10, 2011
Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon

Monday Jan 03, 2011
HoP 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists
Monday Jan 03, 2011
Monday Jan 03, 2011
Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists

Monday Dec 27, 2010
HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics
Monday Dec 27, 2010
Monday Dec 27, 2010
Hippocrates and the relation between early Greek medicine and philosophy

Monday Dec 20, 2010
HoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics
Monday Dec 20, 2010
Monday Dec 20, 2010
Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers

Monday Dec 13, 2010
HoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles
Monday Dec 13, 2010
Monday Dec 13, 2010
Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles

Monday Dec 06, 2010
HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras
Monday Dec 06, 2010
Monday Dec 06, 2010
Is everything mixed with everything? Anaxagoras on Mind and the cosmos

Thursday Nov 25, 2010
HoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus
Thursday Nov 25, 2010
Thursday Nov 25, 2010
Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides

Monday Nov 22, 2010
HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus
Monday Nov 22, 2010
Monday Nov 22, 2010
Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy

Monday Nov 15, 2010
HoP 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides
Monday Nov 15, 2010
Monday Nov 15, 2010
The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea

Monday Nov 08, 2010
HoP 006 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus
Monday Nov 08, 2010
Monday Nov 08, 2010
MM McCabe of King's discusses the fragments of Heraclitus

Monday Nov 01, 2010
HoP 005 - Old Man River - Heraclitus
Monday Nov 01, 2010
Monday Nov 01, 2010
Everything changes in the riddling philosophy of Heraclitus

Monday Oct 25, 2010
HoP 004 - The Man With The Golden Thigh - Pythagoras
Monday Oct 25, 2010
Monday Oct 25, 2010
Pythagoras and mathematics in ancient philosophy

Monday Oct 25, 2010
HoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion
Monday Oct 25, 2010
Monday Oct 25, 2010
The gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the critique of Xenophanes

Monday Oct 25, 2010
HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximenes
Monday Oct 25, 2010
Monday Oct 25, 2010
Two early Pre-Socratics claim that the world is made of air, and the infinite

Monday Oct 25, 2010
HoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thales
Monday Oct 25, 2010
Monday Oct 25, 2010
In this first episode, Peter discusses the goals of the series and Thales, the first Greek philosopher.