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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 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:16

Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists

 HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:14

Hippocrates and the relation between early Greek medicine and philosophy

 HoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:04

Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers

 HoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:59

Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles

 HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:07

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

 HoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:11

Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides

 HoP 008 - You Can’t Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:59

Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy

 HoP 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:43

The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea

 HoP 006 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:54

MM McCabe of King's discusses the fragments of Heraclitus

 HoP 005 - Old Man River - Heraclitus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:36

Everything changes in the riddling philosophy of Heraclitus

 HoP 004 - The Man With The Golden Thigh - Pythagoras | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:42

Pythagoras and mathematics in ancient philosophy

 HoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:18

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

 HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximenes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:28

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

 HoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thales | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:01

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

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