History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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". www.historyofphilosophy.net

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". www.historyofphilosophy.net

 

#484

HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender

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

Yesterday

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20:44

Yesterday


#483

HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians

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

21 Sep 2025

26 MINS

26:07

21 Sep 2025


#482

HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes

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

07 Sep 2025

34 MINS

34:33

07 Sep 2025


#481

HoP 474 States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions

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

20 Jul 2025

19 MINS

19:20

20 Jul 2025


#480

HoP 473 As Rational As You: Elisabeth of Bohemia

A royal scholar and philosopher sets aside the tribulations of her family to debate Descar... more

06 Jul 2025

21 MINS

21:44

06 Jul 2025


#479

HoP 472 Less Cheer, More Knowledge: Descartes’ Ethics

Descartes’ “provisional” morality and his views on free will and virtue.

22 Jun 2025

20 MINS

20:31

22 Jun 2025


#478

HoP 471 Unclear and Indistinct Ideas: Debating the Meditations

Descartes’ Meditations caused controversy as soon as it appeared. In this episode we look ... more

08 Jun 2025

21 MINS

21:51

08 Jun 2025


#477

HoP 470 Gary Hatfield on Descartes' Meditations

We're joined in this episode by a leading expert on one of the most famous works of philos... more

25 May 2025

36 MINS

36:09

25 May 2025


#476

HoP 469 Ghost in the Machine: Cartesian Dualism

The word “Cartesian” is synonymous with a radical contrast between mind and body. What led... more

11 May 2025

24 MINS

24:30

11 May 2025


#475

HoP 468 Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method

How Descartes fashioned a “method” to repel even the strongest and most radical forms of d... more

27 Apr 2025

29 MINS

29:29

27 Apr 2025


#474

HoP 467 Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics

For Descartes body is purely geometrical. So how does he understand features we can percei... more

13 Apr 2025

27 MINS

27:32

13 Apr 2025


#473

HoP 466 Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works

How René Descartes’ understanding of his own intellectual project evolved across his lifet... more

30 Mar 2025

20 MINS

20:13

30 Mar 2025


#472

HoP 465 Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century

A look at the political and religious ferment that made up the historical context of philo... more

16 Mar 2025

27 MINS

27:02

16 Mar 2025


#471

HoP 464 Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters

In this interview we learn more about the Republic of Letters: its importance for the hist... more

02 Mar 2025

42 MINS

42:13

02 Mar 2025


#470

HoP 463 Doctors without Borders: the Republic of Letters

How scholars around Europe created an international network of intellectual exchange. As e... more

16 Feb 2025

23 MINS

23:36

16 Feb 2025


#469

HoP 462 Freedom to Philosophize: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy

What is Enlightenment, anyway?

02 Feb 2025

36 MINS

36:34

02 Feb 2025


#468

HoP 461 - Eileen Reeves on Galileo and the Telescope

We finish our look at philosophy in the Reformation era with an interview about Galileo's ... more

19 Jan 2025

43 MINS

43:04

19 Jan 2025


#467

HoP 460 - Trial and Error - Galileo and the Inquisition

The philosophical issues at the heart of the notorious condemnation of Galileo and Coperni... more

05 Jan 2025

18 MINS

18:59

05 Jan 2025


#466

HoP 459 - Cardinal Rule - Robert Bellarmine

Though most famous for his role in persecuting Galileo, Robert Bellarmine was a central fi... more

22 Dec 2024

19 MINS

19:36

22 Dec 2024


#465

HoP 458 - Outsider Philosophy - The Cheese and the Worms

Carlo Ginzburg’s innovative historical study The Cheese and the Worms looks at the ideas o... more

08 Dec 2024

22 MINS

22:15

08 Dec 2024


#464

HoP 457 - Take Your Medicine - Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani

Natural philosophy and medicine in the work of two unorthodox thinkers of the late sixteen... more

24 Nov 2024

19 MINS

19:53

24 Nov 2024


#463

HoP 456 - Touch Me With Your Madness - Cervantes’ Don Quixote

Why do critics consider Don Quixote the first “modern” novel, and what does it tell us abo... more

10 Nov 2024

25 MINS

25:39

10 Nov 2024


#462

HoP 455 - Tom Pink on Francisco Suárez

We're joined by Tom Pink, who tells us about Suárez on ethics, law, religion, and the stat... more

27 Oct 2024

35 MINS

35:26

27 Oct 2024


#461

HoP 454 - By Appointment Only - Political Philosophy in the Second Scholastic

Suárez and other Iberian scholastics ask where political power comes from and under what c... more

13 Oct 2024

16 MINS

16:58

13 Oct 2024