"Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays," which I edited with Matteo Di Giovanni for Cambridge University Press, is now out in paperback! Contact me if you want a flyer that will get you a 20% discount.
422. The World’s Law: Richard HookerPosted on 28 May 2023
Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.
124. Double Jeopardy: Black FeminismPosted on 21 May 2023
Toni Cade Bambara, the Combahee River Collective, and Awa Thiam critique white feminist and black nationalist failures to recognize the unique struggle of the black woman.
421. With Such Perfection Govern: English Political ThoughtPosted on 14 May 2023
The evolution of ideas about kingship and the role of the “three estates” in 15th and 16th century England, with a focus on John Fortescue and Thomas Starkey.
420. No Place Will Please Me So: Thomas MorePosted on 7 May 2023
What is the message of the famous, but elusive, work Utopia, and how can it be squared with the life of its author?
123. History Teaches Us: Walter RodneyPosted on 30 April 2023
Pan-Africanist and Marxist historian Walter Rodney rethinks Black Power, engages with Rastafari, and opposes racial division in his home country of Guyana.
419. Write Till Your Ink Be Dry: Humanism in BritainPosted on 23 April 2023
Humanism comes to England and Scotland, leading scholars like Thomas Eylot and Andrew Melville to rethink philosophical education.
Image: Queen Elizabeth's translation of Boethius
122. A More Human Face: Steve BikoPosted on 16 April 2023
Famous for his killing at the hands of the Apartheid government in South Africa, Steve Biko was also a deep thinker, who introduced the notion of Black Consciousness.
418. Diarmaid MacCulloch on the British ReformationsPosted on 9 April 2023
A leading expert on the history of the Reformation joins us to explain the very different stories of England and Scotland in the 16th century.
121. No Agreement: Fela Kuti and Wole SoyinkaPosted on 2 April 2023
The political and musical revolution of Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, the social critique of his cousin, the playwright Wole Soyinka, and the extraordinary career of Fela's mother Funmilayo.
417. To Kill a King: The Scottish ReformationPosted on 26 March 2023
John Knox polemicizes against idolaters and female rulers, while the humanist George Buchanan argues more calmly for equally radical political conclusions.
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- 27 July 20203 commentsHere's my latest piece for the magazine "Philosophy Now" on the idea of eternal recurrence, and how it reappeared, appropriately enough, in the Stoics, Indian cosmology, and Nietzsche:
- 25 July 20200 comments
For those on the lookout for other history of philosophy podcasts, you might check out this series, which in comparison to HoPWaG is mercifully short. Covers some of the main figures since Hobbes, including Wollstonecraft, Marx, Fanon, etc.
- 11 July 20200 commentsHere's your big chance to have the dubious pleasure of hearing me speak in German: I was interviewed for the podcast "Erzähl mir eine Geschichte" (despite the general title it's about Islamic history) on the Arabic reception of Greek thought:
- 6 July 20200 comments
Here is a blog post I just wrote for "Daily Nous": The Margins of Philosophy, on the importance of studying "minor" figures and including them in popular philosophical projects like this podcast.
- 18 June 20200 comments
Just an announcement that I will be speaking at Intelligent Speech 2020, an online conference that brings together the best educational podcasters and their listeners, to be held online on June 27. Some key info (act now to get a cheaper ticket):
- 12 June 20200 comments
OMG the new issue of podcasting magazine Pod Bible has an interview in which the great Stephen Fry (of whom I am a huge fan, like he is literally my favorite celebrity) reports that he listens to HoPWaG. So listeners you are in excellent company! And I, to quote from Blackadder, am as excited as a particularly excitable person who has a special reason to be excited.
- 1 May 20200 comments
Here is an interview I did for "New Books in Hindu Studies" on "Classical Indian Philosophy" which is vol.5 of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, co-authored with Jonardon Ganeri.
- 30 March 20200 comments
Looking forward to speaking this Thursday (April 2, 2020) at 6 pm Central European Time in Bob Pasnau's "virtual colloquium" on medieval philosophy.
My topic will be Averroes’ “Decisive Treatise” as a Dialectical Work.
https://inmediasphil.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/virtual-colloquium-2-feat…
- 26 March 20200 comments
Some welcome news amongst all the bad news: volume 5 of HoPWaG, on Indian Philosophy, is now out in the UK!
- 5 March 20201 comments
Pleased to say I'll be speaking as a keynote lecturer at the meeting of the British Society for the History of Philosophy in April 2020, in Durham. Come on by if you're in the neighborhood!
- 2 March 20200 comments
Right here on the website (under Bonus Episodes) you can now hear the keynotes from our event at Oxford last month, "Women Intellectuals in Antiquity."
Sophia Connell on women in ancient medicine:
Danielle Layne on Platonic priestesses:
Enjoy!
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