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.
Recent Episodes
HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
8 Mar 2026
HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
22 Feb 2026
HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
8 Feb 2026
HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
25 Jan 2026
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
11 Jan 2026
HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
28 Dec 2025
HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
14 Dec 2025
HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi
30 Nov 2025
HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
16 Nov 2025
HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
2 Nov 2025
HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science
19 Oct 2025
HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender
5 Oct 2025
HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians
21 Sep 2025
HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes
7 Sep 2025
HoP 474 States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions
20 Jul 2025
HoP 473 As Rational As You: Elisabeth of Bohemia
6 Jul 2025
HoP 472 Less Cheer, More Knowledge: Descartes’ Ethics
22 Jun 2025
HoP 471 Unclear and Indistinct Ideas: Debating the Meditations
8 Jun 2025
HoP 470 Gary Hatfield on Descartes' Meditations
25 May 2025
HoP 469 Ghost in the Machine: Cartesian Dualism
11 May 2025
HoP 468 Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method
27 Apr 2025
HoP 467 Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics
13 Apr 2025
HoP 466 Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works
30 Mar 2025
HoP 465 Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century
16 Mar 2025
HoP 464 Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters
2 Mar 2025
HoP 463 Doctors without Borders: the Republic of Letters
16 Feb 2025
HoP 462 Freedom to Philosophize: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy
2 Feb 2025
HoP 461 - Eileen Reeves on Galileo and the Telescope
19 Jan 2025
HoP 460 - Trial and Error - Galileo and the Inquisition
