Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes list
In his “Essays” Montaigne uses his wit, insight, and humanist training to tackle his favorite subjec
Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Guillaume du Vair grapple with history and the events of their
A chat with Ann Blair about the "Theater of Nature" by Jean Bodin, and other encyclopedic works of n
The polymath Jean Bodin produces a pioneering theory of political sovereignty along the way to defen
Protestant French thinkers like François Hotman and Theodore Beza propose a radical political philos
An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and
Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled cas
The methods of Peter Ramus sweep across Europe, winning adherents and facing stiff opposition in equ
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and s
Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medi
Challenges to Galenic medical orthodoxy from natural philosophy: Jean Fernel with his idea of the hu
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address p
Peter chats with the hosts of three great philosophy podcasts: Elucidations, Hi-Phi Nation, and the
In his outrageous novel about Pantagruel and Gargantua, Rabelais engages with scholasticism, humanis
A Renaissance queen supports philosophical humanism and produces literary works on spirituality, lov
We begin to look at philosophy in Renaissance France, beginning with humanists like Budé and the use
Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
Responses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho
