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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 044 - The Goldilocks Theory - Aristotle’s Ethics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:23

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics on happiness and virtue

 HoP 043 - Classified Information - Aristotle’s Biology | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:00

In his zoology, Aristotle divides and defines all kinds of animals, and so invents the science of biology

 HoP 042 - Soul Power - Aristotle’s De Anima | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:12

Aristotle's theory of soul: its functions and how it relates to the body

 HoP 041 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:24

Richard Sorabji discusses time, eternity and mosquitos in Aristotle's Physics

 HoP 040 - Let’s Get Physical - Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:16

Aristotle's Physics explains change, time and place with the help of his actuality/potentiality distinction

 HoP 039 - Form and Function - Aristotle’s Four Causes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:19

The four types of explanation: formal, material, efficient and final cause

 HoP 038 - Down To Earth - Aristotle on Substance | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:31

Aristotle's critique of Platonic Forms and defense of his own metaphysics

 HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:07

Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge

 HoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle’s Epistemology | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:15

Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

 HoP 035 - The Philosopher’s Toolkit - Aristotle’s Logical Works | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:45

Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon (especially Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics)

 HoP 034 - Mr. Know It All - Aristotle’s Life And Works | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:47

Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence

 HoP 033 - Last Judgments - Plato, Poetry and Myth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:16

Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues

 HoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:15

Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium

 HoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato’s Erotic Dialogues | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:59

Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis

 HoP 030 - A Likely Story - Plato’s Timaeus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:50

A divine craftsman makes the cosmos from triangles in Plato's Timaeus

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