Peter Adamson

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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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. NOTE: iTunes shows only the most recent 300 episodes; subscribe on iTunes or go to a different platform for the whole series.

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Peter Adamson

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historyofphilosophy.net

Latest episode

Jun 28, 2026

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Episodes

HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist 11.04.2011

Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist

HoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms 04.04.2011

The Third Man Argument and other criticisms of Forms in the Parmenides

HoP 026 - Ain't No Sunshine - The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic 28.03.2011

The Divided Line, Form of the Good, and Cave in Plato's Republic

HoP 025 - Soul and The City - Plato's Political Philosophy 20.03.2011

Plato's Republic defends and defines justice at the level of the ideal city and the person

HoP 024 - Famous Last Words - Plato's Phaedo 14.03.2011

Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo

HoP 023 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato 07.03.2011

MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato

HoP 022 - I Know Because The Caged Bird Sings - Plato's Theaetetus 28.02.2011

Knowledge, relativism, and memory in the Theaetetus

HoP 021 - We Don't Need No Education - Plato's Meno 21.02.2011

The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection

HoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias 14.02.2011

Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece.

HoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues 07.02.2011

Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus

HoP 018 - In Dialogue - The Life And Writings Of Plato 31.01.2011

The life, times and dialogues of Plato

HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates 24.01.2011

Raphael Woolf discusses Socrates as presented by Plato

HoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates 17.01.2011

Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly

HoP 015 - Socrates without Plato - the Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon 10.01.2011

Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon

HoP 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists 03.01.2011

Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists

HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics 27.12.2010

Hippocrates and the relation between early Greek medicine and philosophy

HoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics 20.12.2010

Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers

HoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles 13.12.2010

Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles

HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras 06.12.2010

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

HoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus 25.11.2010

Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides

HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus 22.11.2010

Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy

HoP 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides 15.11.2010

The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea

HoP 006 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus 08.11.2010

MM McCabe of King's discusses the fragments of Heraclitus

HoP 005 - Old Man River - Heraclitus 01.11.2010

Everything changes in the riddling philosophy of Heraclitus

HoP 004 - The Man With The Golden Thigh - Pythagoras 25.10.2010

Pythagoras and mathematics in ancient philosophy

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