HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination
April 23rd, 2017
Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine ask how we can be free if God knows and chooses the things we will do in the future.
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HoP 275 - Keeping it Real - Responses to Ockham
April 9th, 2017
Walter Burley flies the flag for realism against Ockham and other nominalists.
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HoP 274 - Susan Brower-Toland on Ockham’s Philosophy of Mind
March 26th, 2017
An interview with Susan Brower-Toland covering Ockham's views on cognition, consciousness, and memory.
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HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language
March 12th, 2017
How the language of thought relates to spoken and written language, according to William of Ockham.
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HoP 272 - A Close Shave - Ockham’s Nominalism
February 26th, 2017
Ockham trims away the unnecessary entities posited by other scholastics.
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HoP 271 - Do As You’re Told - Ockham on Ethics and Political Philosophy
February 12th, 2017
William of Ockham on freedom of action and freedom of thought.
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HoP 270 - Render unto Caesar - Marsilius of Padua
January 29th, 2017
In his book Defender of the Peace, Marsilius of Padua develops new theories of representative government, rights, and ownership.
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Democracy and the History of Philosophy
January 21st, 2017
Peter muses on recent political events in light of the history of philosophy.
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HoP 269 - Our Power is Real - The Clash of Church and State
January 15th, 2017
Giles of Rome and Dante on the rival claims of the church and secular rulers.
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HoP 268 - To Hell and Back - Dante Alighieri
January 1st, 2017
Italy’s greatest poet Dante Alighieri was also a philosopher, as we learn from his Convivio and of course the Divine Comedy.
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HoP 267 - After Virtue - Marguerite Porete
December 18th, 2016
Marguerite Porete is put to death for her exploration of the love of God, The Mirror of Simple Souls.
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HoP 266 - Tom Pink on the Will
December 4th, 2016
A conversation with Tom Pink about medieval theories of freedom and action.
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HoP 265 - Time of the Signs - the Fourteenth Century
November 20th, 2016
An introduction to philosophy in the 14th century, focusing on two big ideas: nominalism and voluntarism.
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HoP 264 - Giorgio Pini on Scotus on Knowledge
November 6th, 2016
Peter hears about Duns Scotus' epistemology from expert Giorgio Pini.
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HoP 263 - One in a Million - Scotus on Universals and Individuals
October 23rd, 2016
Scotus explains how things can share a nature in common while being unique individuals.
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HoP 262 - On Command - Scotus on Ethics
October 9th, 2016
Scotus argues that morality is a matter of freely choosing to follow God’s freely issued commands.
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HoP 261 - To Will or Not to Will - Scotus on Freedom
September 25th, 2016
Scotus develops a novel theory of free will and, along the way, rethinks the notions of necessity and possibility.
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HoP 260 - Once and for All - Scotus on Being
September 11th, 2016
Duns Scotus attacks the proposal of Aquinas and Henry of Ghent that being is subject to analogy.
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Summer Reading
August 6th, 2016
How to fill the month of August while the podcast is on summer break. Buy the book versions of the podcast at Oxford University Press.
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HoP 259 - Richard Cross on Philosophy and the Trinity
July 31st, 2016
Medieval discussions of the Trinity charted new metaphysical territory, as we see in this interview with Richard Cross.
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