Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes list
Did the metaphysics of Francisco Suárez mark a shift from traditional scholasticism to early modern
What was Luis de Molina trying to say about human free will with his doctrine of “middle knowledge,”
To celebrate reaching 450 episodes, Peter looks at the philosophical resonance of two famous artwork
We learn from Anna Tropia how Jesuit philosophy of mind broke new ground in the scholastic tradition
The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the
Yes, there were Spanish Protestants! Andrew (Andrés) Messmer joins us to explain how they drew on hu
Cajetan, Bañez and other thinkers make Aquinas a central figure of Counter-Reformation thought; we f
Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and
Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross push the boundaries of individual spirituality and offer philo
Fray Luis de Leon, Antonio Nebrija, Beatriz Galindo and other scholars bring the Renaissance to Spai
In this interview we learn about the main issues in modern-day philosophy of disability, and the rel
Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a
Iberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia
How religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the
How the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation created a context for philosophy among Catholics
An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how
Our last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine,
The cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism
Changing ideas about eyesight, light, mirror images, and refraction – and the skeptical worries they
How scientists of the Elizabethan age anticipated the discoveries and methods of the Enlightenment (
