History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps show

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Summary: 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." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition. www.historyofphilosophy.net

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Podcasts:

 HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:37

The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German.

 HoP 286 - On the Money - Medieval Economic Theory | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:35

Changing ideas about money, just price, and usury, up to the time of Buridan, Oresme, and Gregory of Rimini.

 HoP 285 - Dominik Perler on Medieval Skepticism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:28:59

The medievals were too firm in their beliefs to entertain skeptical worries, right? Don't be so sure, as Peter learns from Dominik Perler.

 HoP 284 - Seeing is Believing - Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:04

The debate between Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on whether it is possible to achieve certain knowledge.

 HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:32:22

Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.

 HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:29

The hipster’s choice for favorite scholastic, John Buridan, sets out a nominalist theory of knowledge and language, and explains the workings of free will.

 HoP 281 - Monica Green on Medieval Medicine | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:37:26

An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.

 HoP 280 - Get to the Point - Fourteenth Century Physics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:49

Ockham, Buridan, Oresme and Francis of Marchia explore infinity, continuity, atomism, and the impetus involved in motion.

 HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:52

Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.

 HoP 278 - Sara Uckelman on Obligations | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:43:17

Sara Uckelman soundly defeats Peter in the medieval logical game of "obligations."

 HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:40

The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”

 HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:33

Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine ask how we can be free if God knows and chooses the things we will do in the future.

 HoP 275 - Keeping it Real - Responses to Ockham | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:04

Walter Burley flies the flag for realism against Ockham and other nominalists.

 HoP 274 - Susan Brower-Toland on Ockham’s Philosophy of Mind | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:21

An interview with Susan Brower-Toland covering Ockham's views on cognition, consciousness, and memory.

 HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:43

How the language of thought relates to spoken and written language, according to William of Ockham.

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