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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes list

Episodes

Total: 479

The four types of explanation: formal, material, efficient and final cause

Aristotle's critique of Platonic Forms and defense of his own metaphysics

Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge

Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon (especially Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analy

Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence

Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues

Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium

Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis

A divine craftsman makes the cosmos from triangles in Plato's Timaeus

Philosophy of language and Heraclitean flux in Plato's Cratylus

Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist

The Third Man Argument and other criticisms of Forms in the Parmenides

The Divided Line, Form of the Good, and Cave in Plato's Republic

Plato's Republic defends and defines justice at the level of the ideal city and the person

Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo

MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato

Knowledge, relativism, and memory in the Theaetetus

The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection

Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece.