Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes list
Descartes’ “provisional” morality and his views on free will and virtue.
Descartes’ Meditations caused controversy as soon as it appeared. In this episode we look at critici
We're joined in this episode by a leading expert on one of the most famous works of philosophy ever
The word “Cartesian” is synonymous with a radical contrast between mind and body. What led Descartes
How Descartes fashioned a “method” to repel even the strongest and most radical forms of doubt, with
For Descartes body is purely geometrical. So how does he understand features we can perceive, like c
How René Descartes’ understanding of his own intellectual project evolved across his lifetime.
A look at the political and religious ferment that made up the historical context of philosophy in 1
In this interview we learn more about the Republic of Letters: its importance for the history of ide
How scholars around Europe created an international network of intellectual exchange. As examples we
What is Enlightenment, anyway?
We finish our look at philosophy in the Reformation era with an interview about Galileo's use of a r
The philosophical issues at the heart of the notorious condemnation of Galileo and Copernican astron
Though most famous for his role in persecuting Galileo, Robert Bellarmine was a central figure of th
Carlo Ginzburg’s innovative historical study The Cheese and the Worms looks at the ideas of an obscu
Natural philosophy and medicine in the work of two unorthodox thinkers of the late sixteenth century
Why do critics consider Don Quixote the first “modern” novel, and what does it tell us about the aes
We're joined by Tom Pink, who tells us about Suárez on ethics, law, religion, and the state.
Suárez and other Iberian scholastics ask where political power comes from and under what circumstanc
Vitoria, Molina, Suárez and others develop the idea of natural law, exploring its relevance for topi
