History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

HoP 053 - Beware of the Philosopher - the Cynics 06.11.2011 22:09 ↓

Diogenes and the other Cynics “deface the currency” by exposing the hypocrisy of Greek society.

HoP 052 - Fighting Over Socrates - the Hellenistic Schools 30.10.2011 22:42 ↓

Introducing the Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans and Cynics, the schools of the Hellenistic age

HoP 051 - The Next Generation - the Followers of Plato and Aristotle 23.10.2011 22:40 ↓

The Old Academy and Theophrastus carry on the legacy of Plato and Aristotle

HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato 16.10.2011 36:54 ↓

Peter's colleagues MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf join him for a special 50th episode interview, to discuss Aristotle's reactions to his teacher Plato

HoP 049 - Stage Directions - Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics 09.10.2011 20:44 ↓

In the Rhetoric and Poetics, Aristotle explores persuasive speech and engages with ancient tragedy

HoP 048 - Constitutional Conventions - Aristotle's Political Philosophy 02.10.2011 21:19 ↓

Aristotle's Politics responds to Plato's Republic and sets out its own ideas about the ideal state, the types of political constitution, and the role of women and slaves

HoP 047 God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God 25.09.2011 21:16 ↓

Drawing on the De Anima, On the Heavens, Physics and Metaphysics, Peter tackles Aristotle’s theory of mind and its relation to his theology.

HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics 18.09.2011 28:31 ↓

Dominic Scott discusses Aristotle's method in his Nicomachean Ethics

HoP 045 - The Second Self - Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship 11.09.2011 20:39 ↓

What place does Aristotle leave for pleasure and friendship in his vision of the good life?

HoP 044 - The Goldilocks Theory - Aristotle's Ethics 03.09.2011 20:23 ↓

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics on happiness and virtue

HoP 043 - Classified Information - Aristotle's Biology 24.07.2011 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 17.07.2011 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 10.07.2011 26:24 ↓

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

HoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy 03.07.2011 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 26.06.2011 20:19 ↓

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

HoP 038 - Down To Earth - Aristotle on Substance 19.06.2011 20:31 ↓

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

HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method 12.06.2011 26:07 ↓

Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge

HoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle's Epistemology 07.06.2011 20:14 ↓

Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

HoP 035 - The Philosopher's Toolkit - Aristotle's Logical Works 30.05.2011 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 23.05.2011 20:47 ↓

Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence

HoP 033 - Last Judgments - Plato, Poetry and Myth 16.05.2011 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 09.05.2011 25:15 ↓

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

HoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato's Erotic Dialogues 02.05.2011 21:59 ↓

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

HoP 030 - A Likely Story - Plato's Timaeus 25.04.2011 20:50 ↓

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

HoP 029 - What's in a Name? - Plato's Cratylus 18.04.2011 19:01 ↓

Philosophy of language and Heraclitean flux in Plato's Cratylus