History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Peter Adamson
Show overview
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps has been publishing since 2010, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 512 episodes. That works out to roughly 210 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 21 min and 26 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 22 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2012, with 49 episodes published. Published by Peter Adamson.
From the publisher
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
Latest Episodes
View all 512 episodesHoP 500e Daniel Watson on Medieval Irish Philosophy
HoP 500d Ted Good on Zoroastrianism
HoP 500c Troels Engberg-Pedersen on St Paul and the Stoics
HoP 500b Melissa Lane on Herotodus and Thucydides
HoP 500a Marguerite Johnson on Sappho
HoP 499 Beyond Belief: Bayle, Toleration, and Atheism
Bonus Episode: Glenn Adamson on A Century of Tomorrows
HoP 498 Probably Probable: Pierre Bayle and his Dictionary
HoP 497 Pure and Simple: Quietism
HoP 496 He Unwilling, She Unwilling: Jean Racine
HoP 495 Comedy of Errors: Molière
HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
Ep 489HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism
What led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” for divine action?
Ep 488HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy.
Ep 490HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes.
Ep 487HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.