History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by loo... more

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas o... more

Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversia... more

An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets phi... more

Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?

Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what unit... more

Why did Sébastian Basso and Pierre Gassendi think ancient atomism was the key to developin... more

Gassendi’s path from skepticism to “baptized Epicureanism.”

So-called “libertines” like Mothe le Vayer revive ancient skepticism, provoking a backlash... more

An interview exploring Descartes' interest in medicine, how his medical ideas relate to hi... more

From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Desca... more

Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, P... more

Early Cartesians including Cordemoy and de La Forge develop but also challenge Descartes’ ... more

We finish our look at Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes by talking to Ariane Schneck abou... more

What do emotions reveal about the connection between mind and body? We turn to Descartes’ ... more