History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

HoP 251 - Masters of the University - “Latin Averroism" 10.04.2016 23:27 ↓

Did Siger of Brabant and Boethius of Dacia, who have been called “Latin Averroists” and “radical Aristotelians,” really embrace a doctrine of “double truth”?

HoP 250 - Q&A 27.03.2016 41:17 ↓

Peter answers listener questions on the nature of philosophy and the podcast series.

HoP 249 - Paris When it Sizzles - the Condemnations 13.03.2016 21:27 ↓

Two rounds of condemnations at Paris declare certain philosophical teachings as heretical. But what were the long term effects?

HoP 248 - Scott MacDonald on Aquinas 28.02.2016 28:06 ↓

Scott MacDonald joins Peter to discuss Thomas Aquinas' views on human knowledge.

HoP 247 - Onward, Christian Soldiers - Just War Theory 14.02.2016 21:59 ↓

Aquinas follows medieval legal thinkers in defining the conditions under which war may be justified, and proposes his famous doctrine of double effect.

HoP 246 - What Pleases the Prince - The Rule of Law 31.01.2016 24:11 ↓

Natural law and political legitimacy in thirteenth century thinkers up to and including Thomas Aquinas.

HoP 245 - What Comes Naturally - Ethics in Albert and Aquinas 17.01.2016 20:56 ↓

Natural and supernatural virtue and happiness in Thomas Aquinas and his teacher, Albert the Great.

HoP 244 - Everybody Needs Some Body - Aquinas on Soul and Knowledge 03.01.2016 19:38 ↓

Thomas Aquinas makes controversial claims concerning the unity of the soul and the empirical basis of human knowledge.

HoP 243 - The Ox Heard Round the World - Thomas Aquinas 20.12.2015 22:21 ↓

An introduction to Thomas Aquinas, his views on faith and reason, and his famous “five ways” of proving God’s existence.

HoP 242 - Therese Cory on Self-Awareness in Albert and Aquinas 06.12.2015 33:34 ↓

Therese Cory tells Peter what Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas thought about self-awareness.

HoP 241 - The Shadow Knows - Albert the Great’s Metaphysics 22.11.2015 18:43 ↓

Albert the Great’s theory of being and his attempt to explain what changes in the human mind when we come to see God in the afterlife.

HoP 240 - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Albert the Great’s Natural Philosophy 08.11.2015 20:18 ↓

Albert the Great earns his nickname “universal doctor” by devoting himself to the whole of nature, from geology and botany to the study of human nature.

HoP 239 - Catarina Dutilh Novaes on Medieval Logic 25.10.2015 33:25 ↓

Was medieval logic "formal"? Peter finds out from Catarina Dutilh Novaes.

HoP 238 - Binding Arbitration - Robert Kilwardby 11.10.2015 21:57 ↓

Robert Kilwardby is infamous for his ban on teaching certain philosophical ideas at Oxford, yet made contributions in logic and on the soul.

HoP 237 - Begin the Beguine - Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg 27.09.2015 21:58 ↓

Two Beguine authors, Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg, deploy the tropes of courtly love in vernacular writings about their mystical experiences.

Indian Philosophy Announcement! 19.09.2015 4:25 ↓

New feed for Philosophy in India: http://hopwag2.podbean.com/feed/

HoP 236 - None for Me, Thanks - Franciscan Poverty 09.08.2015 21:53 ↓

Bonaventure and Peter Olivi respond to critics of the Franciscan vow of poverty, in a debate which produced new ideas about economics and rights.

HoP 235 - Juhana Toivanen on Animals in Medieval Philosophy 02.08.2015 24:57 ↓

Medieval ideas about what animals do and do not have in common with humans, and how we should treat them.

HoP 234 - Your Attention Please - Peter Olivi 26.07.2015 23:49 ↓

Peter Olivi proposes that awareness occurs not through passively being affected by things, but by actively paying attention to them.

HoP 233 - Stairway to Heaven - Bonaventure 19.07.2015 22:11 ↓

Bonaventure argues that human knowledge depends on an illumination from God.

HoP 232 - Charles Burnett on Magic 12.07.2015 30:58 ↓

Charles Burnett tells Peter about the role of magic in medieval intellectual life.

HoP 231 - Origin of Species - Roger Bacon 05.07.2015 22:48 ↓

Roger Bacon extols the power of science based on experience and uses a general theory of "species" to explain light and vision.

HoP 230 - A Light That Never Goes Out - Robert Grosseteste 28.06.2015 19:46 ↓

Translator, scientist and theologian Robert Grosseteste sheds light on the cosmos, human understanding, and the rainbow.

HoP 229 - Do the Right Thing - Thirteenth Century Ethics 21.06.2015 19:24 ↓

The scholastics explore Aristotle’s ethical teaching and the concept of moral conscience.

HoP 228 - It's All Good - The Transcendentals 14.06.2015 23:28 ↓

Philip the Chancellor introduces the transcendentals, a key idea in medieval metaphysics and aesthetics.